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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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God save us if these are the students of today. Bunch of spoiled brats complaining they are being ignored. They don’t understand the part of free speech that allows people to ignore you.
These foreign students from Mideast Moslem countries come to American colleges and universities, demand acceptance of their “destroy Israel” protests and anti-Jewish rhetoric. If they can’t comport themselves in a respectful manner towards all Americans, towards all people of different faiths, then they should remain within their native country.
Acceptance and enrollment at University of Chicago, at UIUC, is a privilege, not a God-given right, generously afforded to these now-aggrieved foreign students.
University students claiming their free speech rights are violated when their urgent demands are ignored. Sounds like a course on the Constitution is needed, possibly along with a remedial reading class.