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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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How did we get to this? Last I checked white is a color. In fact here is a list of 122 shades of white. So that means all humans have some variation of color.
https://www.color-meanings.com/shades-of-white-color-names-html-hex-rgb-codes/
What about using the term Students with various Pigmentation. This way everyone is welcome.
Isn’t this racial discrimination on campus?
In the 60s wasn’t it a fight for equal rights for all?
Guess discrimination on the basis of color is in vogue right now – bad decision.
Yes, of course it’s racial discrimination. But it’s nothing compared to the ultimate on that — selecting a Supreme Court justice based on a hard rule that only black women would be considered.
There’s no shortage of highly intelligent black women who could be on the SCOTUS based on merit alone. There’s a couple conservative ones out there that Biden himself fought to elevate to the appellate court precisely because he feared they would eventually be picked for the supreme court. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/feb/1/biden-accused-hypocrisy-filibuster-against-black-f/ But the Biden Junta, as incompetent as they are, picked the dumbest of them all. It’s beyond absurd that she refused to give the definition of a woman with the excuse that she’s not a biologist. Years ago I watched the Roberts hearing (and despite that man’s many flaws). The dumb… Read more »
Wonder what the reaction would have been had Biden declared he was going to nominate a white male.
The whole atmosphere from this administration is toxic.
Calhoun, the “Downtown Lawyer” of Amos & Andy fame would have been an excellent choice.