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Comment: Outrageous and terrifying, yet not a word about it in the local press.
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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ABC News.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions remarks on free speech on college campuses.
Streamed live on Sep 26, 2017.
The attorney general delivers remarks at the Georgetown University Law Center.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMP_0LTMUSU
Young America’s Foundation.
Northwestern University Student Government Rejects Free Speech Bill Following Leftist Protests.
By Kara Zupkus.
January 21, 2020.
“The Associated Student Government voted 12-11-3 to suspend debate on the free speech bill indefinitely last Wednesday, arguing that the resolution didn’t provide enough protections for student protestors and seemed to be tailored more towards protecting conservative speakers, according to Zachary Kessel, the sponsor of the proposed bill.”
http://www.yaf.org/news/northwestern-university-student-government-rejects-free-speech-bill-following-leftist-protests
If today’s left succeeds in its opposition to freedom of speech it will be over the dead bodies of the rest of us.