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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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Apparently thee37 nitwits that want the charges dropped are willing to turn a blind eye to breaking the law, trespassing, resisting arrest, etc. Does it even occur to them that the ringleaders of this nonsense are paid agitators with little or no connection to the school? This isn’t democracy in action, it’s subversive behavior bought and paid for by the Soroses of the left.
Democrats live in a carefully constructed world of fantasy and make-believe, nearly completely unmoored from any objective reality. I don’t need to explain the insane beliefs these people have, we are all aware of them. But what is does is make them very, very angry when they hear alternative points of view that bring truth or challenge their tightly held political beliefs. If anyone has a dissenting point of view, they become a heretic, and are treated with the authoritarian measures required to quell heresy.
Because they are crazy with their ideas