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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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Aw, heck. Just chop em up after they leave the birth canal and be done with it. Really, really late term abortions occur every night ( more on weekends ) in CHI courtesy of Glock, etc. Funny how the crowd that wants to push abortion are also the same people that advocate for unlimited illegal immigration because of the falling population rate.
There’s a sickness to this. Baby’s are viable around 21 weeks, and this mercenary group will perform up to 34 weeks? Why 34 weeks? Why not up to 1st grade? 2nd grade?
This matter has long had me perplexed. When I’ve written something mentioning late term abortions, some readers have said, no, IL law limits abortion to pre-viability. But when I have cited that law, others have said it is routinely ignored or circumvented by the welfare-of-the-mother exception, which some readers say is regularly granted.
“it is routinely ignored or circumvented by the welfare-of-the-mother exception” This is an issue pro-life advocates have known about forever. When Roe v Wade was decided in 1973, SCOTUS also decided another case along with it, Doe v. Bolton. The Doe decision basically stated that if a state law restricted abortion to cases where the health of the mother was at risk, “health” was to be interpreted broadly to include mental health and emotional/social well being. It was Doe — not Roe — which opened up the loophole that lead to abortion on demand. This is also the same issue… Read more »