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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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Pride month is a religious holiday. DePaul, a religious institution, has adopted the pride flag as their 8th sacrament. I guarantee you that your local protestant churches in your neighborhood have done the same. I don’t live in Evanston, but for example, you can look on the webpages of most of their churches and see ‘Pride’ in the logo or on the web page before the cross. The Lutheran church has gone full globohomo, check out their Reconciling in Christ (RIC) webpage, which is the pride flag surrounding the cross. They’ve scalped your Christian traditions and wear the carcass as… Read more »
Here’s a link to the RIC page that actually has the cross surrounded by Rainbow Colors. They are wearing your scalped carcass as a trophy. What blasphemous person looked at this and said, yup! This is exactly what god wanted us to do.
https://www.reconcilingworks.org/ric/