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An employee at Fresh Kickz clothing store in Little Village said she and a co-worker, both pregnant at the time, hid in a bathroom from looters while her manager took cover in a storage room. “It was a little bit scary. Anything could have happened to us.”
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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The Tribune story completely ignored a much bigger disaster – government imposed lockdowns. The authoritarians arbitrarily decided which businesses could stay open and which had to close, all in the name of “science”. These lockdowns caused 10X to 100X the damage of the BLM riots.
send the bill to soros, he runs lightfoot & the DA and funds BLM and antifa on behalf of foreign bankers to derstroy the USA once and for all!
It’s time to shoot to kill all looters and blm terrorists. That will end this nonsense once and for all.
Who works retail? Primarily women, minority women, and members of the LGBTQ community. When you loot stores, you risk the physical, mental, and financial well-being of marginalized groups.
In other words, looters are misogynistic racists.
They have insurance, right? Property damage isn’t violence. It’s restorative justice.
And why did it take the Tribune a full year to get around to these stories?
I didn’t even read the article. I refuse to feed the beast and give money to people that think I’m evil and want me dead.