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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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You folks ain’t seen nothing yet. Old Joe can vouch that the engineering departments of the Big Three are chock full of foreign born engineers. Their cafeterias even had daily features of Chinese and Indian food!
The teachers unions should be backing this lawsuit to protect citizen worker rights.
They won’t. Part of the DEM plan to destroy American citizens.
I was a graduate student at Rush U in the early 1990s and the department head of my section was a Taiwanese scumbag who had preprinted INS letter forms stating that the school needed Chicom students because American could not do the work. He later hired a wog IT worker who was eventually dismissed for stealing department software. Never hire a curry dipper.
All very much illegal. Just because others have been doing this for awhile and gotten away with it, doesn’t make it legal. Pay up.
This is actually more insidious than it appears. Sure, local employers are hiring H1-B visa holders over citizens. But beneath this is another entirely different layer of insidious discrimination. The actual person recruiting the H1-B visa holder himself is often of Indian origin. And when they recruit these H1-B visa holders, they are often secretly, or even openly, applying their caste system to hiring, and seeking out only Brahmin or higher caste recruits. So employers are discriminating against everyone in favor of high caste indians. Caste discrimination is not illegal in the united states because caste is not a protected… Read more »
Note that this has two TD’s. Perhaps those responders would explain. Go ahead,