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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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“Misguided”
The attempts tho excuse the inexcusable continue. You can condemn what the Jan. 6th insurrectionists did AND condemn what Illinois Democrats continue to do.
Yet some still sit in jail cells awaiting a fair trial and others walk freely amongst us to continue their agenda of undermining the Constitution.
We can and do condemn the riot at the Capitol on Jan 6 without the inflammatory hyperbole of calling it an “insurrection!”. As I’m sure you know, the vast majority of people involved were charged only with criminal trespassing.
You picked out one phrase in a long article and try to turn it into the main point. The continued attempts to inflate a riot into the “worst attack on democracy since Pearl Harbor” are inexcusable. This kind of rhetoric more than 3 years after the fact serves no good purpose.
Please explain, precisely and in detail, exactly how the protestors intended to overthrown the United States government by denying the certification vote. Please explain by what mechanism this could happen, and how it could be done by several thousand unarmed MAGA insurrectionists. I want to know how this could or would happen
Brian speaks as though a commie election theft is worth defending. Trump’s team spelled it out, with evidence to prove our enemies were working in concert with Venezuela and China.