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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Take a screen shot. It may not survive the eventual ‘Ministry Of Truth’ records purge, but this paraglider post sure looks like a dog whistle to acolytes: Do This. Here’s How. We Got You.
Everyone on the internet expressed outrage over a really, really dumb tweet from some unsanctioned fake BLM group that doesn’t really exist outside of an astroturfed social media presence. BLM Chicago has no website, no membership, no functioning email, no list of members, no finances. It exists solely because it has followers on social media. It’s social media manager, whoever has access to the BLMChicago twitter feed, posted some really dumb tweet, and everyone keeps acting like “THIS IS ALL OF WHAT BLM THINKS”. Nonsense.
BLM should be ripped out root and branch, as a filthy terrorist cancer on America
BLM savages supporting terrorist savages.
Neither cares for fairness, respect for the rule of law or basic civility.
BLM was and continues to be a con job. Hamas’ savagery should make any human being turn away in disgust.
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