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Gotion Inc., which has extensive ties to the CCP through its parent company, China-based Gotion High-Tech, is poised to build a plant in Manteno, within 30 miles of two U.S. military installations. “MAGA Republicans have made themselves so irrelevant that they have to rely on xenophobia to gin up controversy for their base,” a spokesperson for the governor said.
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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Two witches and the spawn of satan.
Damn straight I’m xenophobic. And given the history of the world, there ain’t anything wrong with that.
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