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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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Old Joe suffers from Islamophobia. I developed it while living in Paris in the mid 80s.
I support Israel’s right to exist, to defend itself and to retaliate for the 10/7 atrocities. However,
It has always been possible to criticize some aspect of Israel – the military, the political leadership, the food, the fashions – without criticizing all Jews.
I have heard Mark Levin (and probably others) equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
You can’t have it both ways!
But “ Abu Akbar “( the assailants name not worthy of mention) is the embodiment of the Dems agenda: Illegally in the country, anti- Semitic and willing to engage law enforcement in a gun battle in the hopes of a lawsuit and costing some police officers their jobs. The guy’s got it all.
The people who paid for those billboards should be charged and convicted of hate speech. Hate speech is not free speech.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, Deb. Hate speech is constitutionally protected, as it should be. The left and the right say hateful things about each other all the time, for example, as is their right.
No offense but who cares that the media refuses to report. Who even reads legacy media these days, anyways? I get all my news from X and CFP. Legacy media is over. Viewership, subscriptions, readership is all down, down down. Layoffs everywhere, consolidation, pay reduction. They only thing that keeps them alive is the open-conspiracy preventing large advertisers from advertising on conservative outlets. There’s a strong possibility that the conspiracy will collapse when Trump is re-elected in 7 days and advertisers realize that spending expensive ad dollars on legacy media to see fewer eyeballs is a dead end, and then… Read more »
Don’t forget your governor wants to step in and use taxpayer dollars to keep MSM afloat. That notion may be down, but it’s certainly not out.