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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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1619-1776
Enslavement of Africans and descendants in The 13 Colonies (of Great Britain)
1776-1865
and continued African Enslavement by The United States of America, decided by territory and stste
1777-1789 Articles of Confederation
1789 George Washington, 1st President
Independent
1797 John Adams, 2nd President, Federalist
1801-1829 Democratic-Republican Presidents
1829-1861 Democratic (5) or Whig (4) Presidents
1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln, 1st Republican President
Addendum:
1828 Democratic Party Birth
1854 Republican Party Birth
1854-1859 Political Party Unknown
Uslyess Grant had a Black slave, William Jones, until Grant freed him.
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Nobody alive in Evanston today was a slave (1619-1865). ?
Slavery still exists in Sudan, Libya, Mauritania and other countries. ☹️
And every slave owner that ever existed was a Democrat. The Republican party wasn’t formed until 1854 and we freed the slaves.
Wonder how this will effect their reparation plans.
We need reparations now more than ever! As Jabba said, centuries of inequities have lead to poor health for minority communities, and they are getting hit twice as hard, because the virus is ravaging their communities the most, and they are most affected by the economic hardship. Pay up!
Evanston is filled with liberal socialists, just like Lightfoot in Chicago. If Evanston can lay off people, why can’t Lightfoot do so in Chicago?