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Former Executive Director Ira Glasser discusses the past, present, and increasingly shaky future of free speech. "What matters is you have to stop the government from gaining the power to decide.... For people who today claim to be passionate about social justice to establish free speech as an enemy is suicidal."
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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Mr. Glasser’s warning sums it up perfectly, taking free speech as your enemy is suicidal. Will the woke liberals pay attention?
No, next question