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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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The Catholics have a pope that has basically denied the Divinity of Christ, embraced global communism, and worldwide government.
It comes as a shock that their lower institutions would embrace the ideology he’s been pushing?
There’s something about him in the Book of Revelation.
Most of the Catholic schools here have long deviated from Catholic doctrine to embrace mainstreamed alternate lifestyles, no matter how provocative for young minds, or whether contrary to their parents’ own more conservative beliefs and traditional Catholic canon. One prominent Catholic Jesuit high school here in Chicago employed for many years a teacher who was long-time “out” gay activist who owned a very prominent far north-side S&M bar complex, including a S&M B&B (yes, you read that right) for its clientele. Its web-site was “eye-opener”, celebrating a life-style in obvious contradiction to Catholic doctrine. Easily confirmed by quick “Windy City… Read more »
Cupich–End of story
Always the Jesuits. Avoid their institutions.
Disagree.
The strategy being used is divide and conquer.