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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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NU supports the anti-Semitic Israel boycott — and actively recruits faculty who encourage killing of Jews by Islamic terrorists — this is no surprise
America’s leftist celebration of ethnonarcissism, and rejection of assimilation, means that the grandchildren of immigrants, three generations removed, are still fighting the stupid battles of their ancestors in the old country. The point of America was to leave the old world behind, and join the new world, but instead, we get stuck with all the worst parts of diversity, and two warring tribes fighting over a strip of arid desert on the otherside of the world bring the conflict to our doorstep. Of note, many eons ago, I toured Northwestern as part of my college tour, and I remember that… Read more »
Antisemitism is a clear marker for insanity. By condoning antisemitism, Northwestern is condoning the actions of insane people.
You sound like ADL. Semites consist of both Jews and Arabs.
Never assume. I’m not a fan of any type of discrimination.
And I, too, own a dictionary.