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Just before 12:30 p.m., police shut down the southbound lanes of Michigan Avenue for the crowd that swelled to about 1,000 to march through the signature shopping district. “While you’re shopping, bombs are dropping,” pro-Palestine activists said, handing out pamphlets laying out statistics about the civilian death toll.
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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Cheer up…at least they were not attacking and robbing people
What has happened to our once great city? Where have all these terrorist supporters come from? They get their statistics from Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah and Hamas for goodness sake. Do any of them really want to be Americans? Or Chicagoans? What the heck are they doing here?
All these years of the media falsely labeling regular Americans as neo-Nazis, then the real ones show up, and media doesn’t call them neo-Nazis.
Absolutely spot on comment.
What a coincidence, I was out shopping when Hamas launched their bombs in a surprise attack. Didn’t see these folks out protesting then. Must have missed them.