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"Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is emblematic of white progressives eager to enact polices that seemingly protect minorities, while actually doing them harm."
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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“Meanwhile, black and Hispanic Democrats are the weakest supporters of these policies.”
Logically, this makes sense. Yet, Kim Foxx, who has single handed neutered the criminal defense system, receives 90%+ of the votes in black and Hispanic Democrat areas of Cook County.
How can this be? You tell me. It’s either bad polling or outright fraud.
Whites have white-guilt and blacks have victimization – and the beat goes on.