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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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Eventually these young punks will figure out there’s no free lunch. Wait until they are 30 and the government wants 40-50% of their income for all the “free” stuff they want to give out.
They’ll turn is until Venezuela before they turn in conservatives. Invite the third world, become the third world.
“Neither party is perfect, but this election it has been made clear.” What?
“I want to see the same fire in Democratic leadership, but I also want the party to let go of career politicians.” He wants to see fire in them and he wants them to retire?
“Let us protect our classmates,” Protect them from what, from becoming responsible adults who pay for their own education and health insurance?
The author may be educated but he’s dumb. All young people think they’re smarter than their elders, once you get older you realize you were wrong. He seems to be so proud that his generation cancelled the vote of an older generation who’s paid taxes for probably two times longer than he’s been alive. His generation may have helped sway an election but they’re the minority, not the majority, that gives them bargaining rights not validation that their position is correct. The party is resonating with young voters, that’s because they’re easily swayed by the likes of CNN and MSNBC.… Read more »
Time for the 22-yr-olds with their newly-printed degrees in Gender Studies/Intersectionality to run the country! What could possibly go wrong?
We are seeing it in real time, and it ain’t good…
They’re already de facto running it:(
I was introduced to the US Government with the Bay of Tonkin incident, the 1976 swine flu mass vaccine hysteria and assorted other fabrications during my lifetime. Recently, one of my offspring did his best to tell me why I should get the jab. I told him I had to admit I was not a book learned doctorate in a health field like he was but had a lifetime of experience of the US Governments utter BS used to sway the public away from rational decisions. While he is still a fresh faced your liberal the Covid c**p and the… Read more »
I’ve told my son that if he’s a liberal I will disown him. So the decision for him is easy. Vote the right way when he turns 18, or, be ostracized. Luckily, all of his friend’s parents seem to lean to the right too, as my community leans slightly to the right (especially among parents). If he wants to remain in contact with his family, and have his parents pay for college, wedding, etc, he knows what political positions to take.
That’s the true definition of love debtsor. Vote my way or I’ll disown you. It’s nice to see you hold no quarter for differing opinions even within your own family. It shows you’re consistent. Well done.
I do this because I love my family. Family ties come before everything. If he wants to break those bonds and adopt a degenerate value system different than that from his entire family, he is allowed to do so, but he can’t expect, at the same time, to receive the benefits of being part of the family.
It’s like saving your children from a bad addiction – be hard and eventually they will come to appreciate it.
Guess the author missed Biden’s ‘bait’n switch’ on the college student loan transfer to working class taxpayers. But it worked- he voted for a Democrat. I guess GenZ and are gulliable.
I am glad the author is feeling so independent and empowered. Please tell DePaul to stop unceasingly sending me requests for donations to fund your tuition. Pay for like I did – live at home, commute to school, and have 2 part time jobs. After that experience, you may have a more inclusive perspective.
He suckered them into voting Democrat – his handlers are rejoicing.
For such a head strong, independent generation they sure sound exactly like the college kids from the early 2000’s, the 1990’s, 1980’s, 1970’s, 1960’s…
Most new generations think they know everything as they come along, but Gen Z is particularly scary because they my be the most naive, poorly educated, weak and close-minded generation in American history.
I’ve always been against war. However, I wouldn’t object to a draft forcing Gen Z overseas to fight some foreign war on behalf of their Democrat warlords. They vote for it, they earned it.
Unfortunately Canada will gain millions of new *citizens* fleeing from their obligations here…
Leaving the old war horse such as myself to do the fighting…
We can thank an organized, multi-generation strategy to grab and indoctrinate children at the earliest possible age.
Don’t forget narcissist to the extreme…
People really underestimate this character trait and how it is manifesting itself in group ideology. Modern liberalism, Trump and covid hysteria all flow from a longing to belong to the current “it” zeitgeist. It’s akin to do gooder preachy overly church types that have to show you how better they are all the time. I’ll give the powers that be this credit, they are expert manipulators.
One word to describe this: Barf.