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Kennedy Bartley is taking over as the next executive director of United Working Families, the group that helped elect Chicago’s new left-wing leadership. "I think when we’re talking about building true working-class, anti-racist, anti-capitalist power, we have to have a coalition, we have to have a united front."
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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Another four(4) reasons I’m glad I voted with my feet and left Taxistan over 20 years ago!!
Chicago “working” families – what does that mean?
Working at what-anything constructive or just another bunch feeding off the Government trough?
Working families sounds like people that work hard, what is really is are people looking to get paid more to do less work.
The Working families term is an ignorant riff off of old communist literature. In the 19th and early 20th century, the fight between laborers (or workers) and capitalists was considered the front lines of progressive movements. The Worker’s Party was a popular political movement with a clear and self explanatory objective. In short, team Johnson is too dumb to even understand communism or that the status quo has purposely installed them to fail. Most communist arguments fail under strict scrutiny and specifics. This ideology can’t survive any scrutiny! Mark Glennon has correctly cited the communist creed in a related article:… Read more »
Hmmmm… A scary screed from the new Executive Director of BJ’s most influential community agency, telling us that Chicago’s capitalists need to pay for more stuff for people who think that capitalists are evil, and should go away. “….we’re talking about building true working-class, anti-racist, anti-capitalist power” Yep. Marxists are in charge of Chicago. And boy are they proud of it – right out loud. But then BJ campaigned openly on taxing capitalists more to pay for root-cause reparations – or whatever it is that they want to call what BJ promised the new taxes would buy. So there’s really… Read more »
It’s worse than that. Anti-capitalists have a history of killing capitalists. Anti-racists have a history of horrible racial vengeance against ‘racists’. And marxists aka commies have a history of killing all opposition before creating dysfunctional authoritarian states. These people want to organize the power of the mob to destroy the existing order.
“But OUR anti-capitalist, anti-racists, marxist state will be a safe, inclusive utopia”
Sure it will, sure it will.
Masks are for cucks.