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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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The alibi’s for the failure of a certain ethnicity never ends.
These people need to define “Implicit bias” and give credible tangible examples of it. They just make up words and phrases to push their Marxist agenda.
Willie should have just left it as Black on Black racism in which he is spot on. It is otherwise disingenuous to go down the racism subdivision sociologist jargoned path of no return.
It’s not black on black racism, bias of any kind. It’s all a hustle. Race is a handy wedge in order to divide us. How else can they justify the abysmal results? They have to play the race card. It’s all about power, jobs, control. We spend more than all of the surrounding states and have worse results. I see the Democrat capture by the “radical left”, similar to “the far right” capture by religious fanatics. Our electorate is so fractured that they need crazies they otherwise would have ignored in the past. Marjorie Taylor Greene was right yesterday when… Read more »