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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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Statement from Medill Dean Charles Whitaker:
http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2019/statement-from-dean-whitaker.html?linkId=76919948
Journalism is a snowflake profession now. Good thing the Internet can disintermediate the need for the next batch of “journalists” coming out of northwestern. A journalist afraid of free speech is useless. People need to learn to find news first hand. Northwestern is running a propaganda school now.
Perfectly said. We usually write about financial topics here, where we generally favor market-based solutions. Those can be debated in good faith. But we also believe in the marketplace of ideas — freedom of expression, which is the foundation of all open societies and which you’d hope no rational person would attack. The twits who want to suppress it would throw away thousands of years of struggle, war and learning it took to get us where we are.
Well according to the university president, Schapiro, the republican student organization is partly to blame for being polarizing in their choice of speaker … Although Schapiro said he supports Sessions’ right to speak on campus and NUCR’s right to invite him, he questioned whether the former attorney general was “the right speaker” for NU. He said that on a campus as liberal as Northwestern’s, there is little opportunity to share conservative thought in a way that starts dialogue. Schapiro — who said he is personally “not a fan” of Sessions — said NUCR missed a chance to do so by… Read more »
Schapiro bears lots of blame on this. Remember that he told incoming freshman that they are “idiots and lunatics” if they don’t believe in safe spaces, microagressions and the like: Here’s the key reminder about him: https://wirepoints.org/why-im-an-idiot-and-a-lunatic-explained-by-the-president-of-university-that-educated-me-northwestern-wp-original/
I don’t want to sound extreme, but this is more evidence that they hate us. They truly, deeply, unequivocally hate all of us conservatives to our very core.
Nothing extreme about it, man. Facts are facts. Remember in the oh-so-PC 90s how many shows/movies would have that one ultra-PC caricature? Now that guy is the mainstream left.
And that’s in just 20 years’ time. I shudder to think what the landscape will resemble in 2039.
They make no attempt to hide it. I’ve gotten it from neighbors, parents of my kids’ classmates and others. You learn who your real friends are.
See, the thing is, I don’t like Sessions either. In his time as AG, he came of like a doddering old man from the good old boys club.
That being said, Mr Sessions has just as much a right to speak as any other American citizen. Wake up, America. They’re coming for the Bill of Rights.
A good ole boys club that took charge and utterly destroy the KKK in the south.
MikeH- Yup, and it’s because I don’t like him, either, that I’d like to have heard him. When I was in school (during the Early Triassic) kids were taught to read and listen first to the people you think you disagree with. Today, it’s Silence Them!
Exactly. I used to watch Clinton’s speeches on TV. And while there was plenty of eye rolling on my part, I still listened. If nothing else, it was good to get a feel for how the opposition was thinking.
I can gleefully say that I never, not once, ever listened to any of Ozero’s speeches. Not a state of the union, or any other speech. I changed the TV station when I saw his A-hole face on the screen. Ozero even spoke at my college graduation ceremony too before he became so very famous. I fell asleep during his speech at my graduation. Do I contribute to the partisan rancor in the country today? Absolutely! Will I ever change? NEVER!
Debtsor, sorry, but I don’t think that’s the right approach. You listen to the other side, if for no other reason, to understand them. More importantly, you’ll find that they are sometimes right. Maybe you even find that your whole world view was faulty.
But my world view is not faulty. The issue is that there is no compromise with people that hate me, despise my values and seek to destroy me. Compromise and bi-partisanship gave us RINOs and the pitiful IL GOP. The local ‘Action’ and ‘Indivisible’ groups make it abundantly clear that they too have zero interest in compromise, unity or bipartisanship. How much compromise did Republicans get in Springfield this session? For goodness sakes, our enemies are primarying their own a progressive Jewish Rabbi (D-Skokie) because he voted ‘Present’ instead of ‘Yea’ for the baby killing bill. How exactly do you… Read more »
Northwestern is an embarrassment to our city and state. Truly an embarrassment.
The lesson is clear: don’t send your children to Northwestern. You’ll spend huge bucks on tuition and they’ll learn nothing. The students will graduate dumber than they enrolled
And don’t give them or similar schools any donations. That’s the solution.