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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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Nothing like continuing to stir the embers of forgotten days to stir up current racial division to secure votes for the Democrats; interesting considering that it was Southern Democrats that owned slaves
Dems also founded the KKK and resisted the Civil Rights Amendment. All-in-all not a good record, but they keep getting elected.
Something along these lines has been attributed to Morgan Freeman: “You want to eliminate racism, stop talking about it.” Can’t confirm it, but it makes sense to me.
Why memorialize horrific events when you can create tributes to the positive stuff? Oh, that’s right, the horrible stuff keeps us fragmented as a society and easily to herd.
Stupid, stupid chickens.
So much for free speech wirepoints. Deleting comments pointing out that giddyapp sides with terrorist and wishes Duckworth would have been shot but leave up his terrorist comment. We know where you stand. Keep letting him spew his garbage.
You really need an aggressive mental health intervention. I would suggest full-power electro-shock therapy, but I don’t think there’s enough power in Northern Illinois to jolt you back to sanity.
Says the guy that cheers for Iraqi insurgents to kill US soldiers. A complete low life loser. Zero moral compass.
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
What exactly went wrong in your life that made you a pathetic internet troll? Priest touch you? Daddy was a cross-dresser? Mommy turned tricks?
I don’t think ECT is available in Illinois. Perhaps a trip out of state for it while you can enjoy the lower gasoline taxes at the same time….a win win situation
Your language on what I deleted was way over the top. Do it again and you will be blocked permanently.
So you ban posts with bad words but not someone that writes Iraqi insurgents should have killed a US senator when they were fighting for our country. Free speech when they agree with you just don’t use any naughty words. Bad words are so scary. I need to find my safe space before I melt.
Your “Comment-Cop-Karen” act has become tiresome. I’ve seen toddlers who were less thirsty for attention. Please make “radical personality change” your New Year’s Resolution.
Where did somebody write in favor of killing anybody? If that’s out there we missed it. And don’t give me your crap about banning opinions we disagree with. We welcome them.
Scroll down. It was attached to the other comments that you banned. Too bad those Iraqi insurgents didn’t have better aim. Completely ignorant. Either that or a liar. Now pretend like you didn’t see it.
I see it now and deleted it. You need to learn to put responses to comments underneath the related comment, to clean up your language, and to stop lying about what we delete and don’t delete.
I did put it under the comment. You deleted them because you didn’t like the language. You were offended by a four letter word like an old lady instead of the hateful giddyap. You threatened to ban me but not the real scum bag. You need to stop pleading ignorance. I’ll post whenever I see you censoring speech and leaving hateful responses. I don’t care if you don’t like it. Do better.
Get a grip. Mark runs this website so he can delete any comment he likes. If you don’t like it, just put in a fresh tampon, slip into your period panties, take a Midol, and wait for your heavy flow to stop.
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Easy, Giddy. You are on the edge, too.
You welcome them unless they are bad words that cause you to go to your safe place. Melt away snowflake.
Time to call your therapist and have him up your dosage. You are ranting like a lunatic.
Why stop with a monument? Why not a state or even federal holiday? Why not years of “teaching” about the riot instead instead of wasting time on racist colonialist skills like math or reading? Why not commemorative license plates? Redesign the currency to remember the riot. The list is endless
I’ve never heard of this (until today) or the 1921 Tulsa race riot until recently… (I’m 63)
It just goes to show you that when you need to go back over 100 years to find racism, the “demand” far exceeds the actual “supply”…
The marxists just cannot allow any reconciliation between black & white to occur, peace does not further their objectives…
Sen Duckworth, why don’t you pull your head out of your a$$ and deal with some of the real problems that our nation faces. Your virtue signaling will accomplish nothing.
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Hey Tammy, how about suggesting that George Floyd’s image be added to Mt Rushmore