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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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I like Tucker, but sorry, he loses credibility on this one. He purposely excerpts an email from March 24, 2020, which (if you pause on the email) is clearly referring to people gathering in large groups during the original lockdown. By conflating the two (the covid lockdown email from 20 months ago and the spike in crime over the last year), he is no better than the „there were good people there” and other creatively edited b.s. pushed by the MSM. Not to say that Lightfoot doesn’t deserve every bit of criticism she gets. But there’s no need to twist… Read more »
I saw this on tv at first, and then after your criticism, I just rewatched the video a few times focusing on the email. My take is that he wasn’t conflating the spike in crime with her email from the covid lockdown email. Tucker’s writers write the best monologues where they start out talking about one seemingly unrelated thing and then pivot to another seemingly unrelated thing only to tie it up all the end. In this case, he saying that Lori was focused on basketball players, and then pivots and says “meanwhile, the last 12 months have had….” and… Read more »
Imagine if Chicago was on your short list of places you are considering relocating your family or business. National news like this quickly removes Chicago/Illinois from that list.
If / when you quote Tucker, you lose credibility.
Just pretend its not Tucker if you can, open your mind to the statistics. Then re-evaluate if your desire to defund the police, your desire to make self defense a crime, your desire to have sociologists respond to 911 calls instead of an armed and trained cop, your desire to disarm campus police, etc. is working for you. The poor blacks surrounding the elitist castle in Hyde Park called the University of Chicago actually want more police, stronger police, and they actually want violent criminals convicted. The safe-space snowflake rich students whose parents shell out $60,000 a year for that… Read more »
Dude, they don’t want debate or discussion. They only want compliance.
So shut up and do what you’re told and think only what they want you to think.
Why do people believe that impugning the speaker and/or his motives ends discussion on the points presented? This is a common tactic on the left. They even go so far as making up words (ie “whataboutism”) to deflect responsibility for defending their arguments on the merits.
Prozac, life is far easier if you can just answer those you disagree with by saying “racist,” far right” or whatever. That’s all they got.
Charsiu, when you say that, it is you who lose credibility. Tucker exaggerates too often and is occasionally just wrong on facts. He often takes quotes then assigns a broader meaning than they have. But his monologues are especially superb. He spots trends more quickly and sees around the corner in a way few do, often by identifying common themes in different stories that others fail to see.
Chicago sucks! Do not spend a dime there anymore!
$800 MIL for the Obama Center??? Imagine if that money had been spent on increasing police services.
Imagine if some of the donations, i should say some of the money extorted by blm got actually went to try and save lives
More compelling evidence Democrats are a cult. It seems the more ‘educated’, the bigger the cultist.
It was glorious.