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"So, about this strangling weed from Chicago. It comes from the left, from Saul Alinsky and forms the core of today’s Democrat Party. Leftist radical Alinsky who wrote Rules for Radicals.”
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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Being followed to the letter! Lemings united!
Somehow after all these years people in Illinois and Chicago still think that their democratic masters are trying to make their lives better. That they are trying to fix what is wrong with Chicago or Illinois. And they can’t understand why their actions seem to only make things worse. Read this article by Kass and the one in The Jacobin, https://jacobin.com/2025/09/brandon-johnson-chicago-ctu-organizing, and maybe you will come to realize that there is no intent by the democrats to make anything better. By making it worse, their lemming voters can be incited to give them more and more power. Power is what… Read more »
The fight against the Demarxists isn’t over until we grow weary and give up. Then it truly is.
““The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”