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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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Parents need to parent and pass along the gift of learning to their kids.
Sure, but what percentage of these are two-parent households? Especially (but not exclusively) blacks.
Don’t have sex till you’re married. Don’t get married till you’ve at least graduated high school or trade school, and earn enough to support your family without welfare.
Grandmothers and unwed mothers raising kids is a recipe for disaster!
There’s been a lot of anger against Hispanics, but from what I see they take marriage and family seriously. Other folks should emulate that!
Because race pimps know that there is plenty of money in victimization.