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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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Folks, when a race hustler like Kendi can be paid 35K an hour from public funds you’ve got to know the end of the dollar can’t be far behind.
Wirepoints need to take up stacking.
The drumbeat of oppression and victimology gets a lot of attention in academia.
Kendi’s manages to create a franchise of hate and racism – modern day KKK without the physical lynching.
Dr. King weeps.
Only in America can this sub-literate ignoramus be praised for his race hustle fraud fiction
Nobody, not even Hitler, ISIS, or the KKK has the level of pure racial hatred that Kendi has. UI should fire the racist that invited Kendi
“The Way to Stop Discrimination on the Basis of Race Is To Stop Discriminating on the Basis of Race.”
— Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a four-justice plurality in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 551 U.S. 701 (2007)
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“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.”
— Justice Sotomayor, Dissent in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, 572 U.S. 291 (2014)