CNBC reported that “double-dipping” is not illegal and that, “a National Journal study in 2013 found that nearly 20 percent of members have drawn government pensions while serving in the Senate or the House, for a total haul of more than $3.6 million in such pensions in the prior year.”
Source: Millionaire Bernie Sanders Still Gets Mayoral Pension from 1980s Gig
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Why do politicians get pensions?
Can’t they steal enough while in office to get by?
Argh!
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A falling population means the city’s massive pension debts are falling on a smaller base of taxpayers. That’s bad news enough.
But another key demographic – the ratio of active government workers to pensioners – is even more concerning.That ratio, which equaled 1.4 actives for every pensioner in 2005, has collapsed to nearly 1.05. And if the trend continues, in just a year or two there will be more pensioners draining money from the pension funds than active workers putting money in.
Source: Chicago’s pension funds looking more like a collapsing Ponzi scheme | Wirepoints
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Can you spell “unfunded liabilities”?
Clearly, this is the USA’s problem writ large!
The current 121T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities is something that our posterity will have to deal with; not just the Chicago / Illinois taxpayers.
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egocentric temporal order bias
Source: Out of bounds: Why basketball players believe they weren’t last to touch ball | Ars Technica
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Outside the Wells Fargo arena in Philadelphia is a nondescript, grit-strewn concrete slab. It is all that remains after the Flyers hockey organization last weekend hauled away the statue of an exuberant Kate Smith that had stood there for 32 years. Gone too is the plaque that explained Smith’s cherished place in Flyers history
:“Blessed with a voice and presence which led her to stardom on Broadway, radio, and television, Miss Smith came to symbolize joyous, homespun American patriotism. . . . Her live performance of ‘God Bless America’ helped inspire the Flyers to become Stanley Cup Champions for the first time in 1974. This statue, honoring one of America’s greatest patriots, is a gift from the Philadelphia Flyers to the people of our great country.”
For decades, Smith’s recording of “God Bless America” was embraced by Flyers fans as a harbinger of luck; the team went 101-31-5 in games when the song was played. The New York Yankees had a Kate Smith ritual as well: Ever since 9/11, Smith’s rendition of “God Bless America” was heard during every seventh inning at Yankee Stadium.
Source: The banishing of Kate Smith isn’t ‘sensitive’ — it’s ridiculous – The Boston Globe
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And, from what is coming out now, the song was a satire produced and sung with Paul Robeson, a famous black signer of her era. It was intended to be a protest against segregation.
How did that fact get “lost” by the media?
Perhaps because it didn’t fit the “narrative” that they push all the time — USA bad; historical figures bad; only ” “good” people should have statues! Argh! I think the media types, “celebrities”, politicians, and bureaucrats should be ranked below used car salesmen in any trustworthy ranking. Like anyone cares what I think.
Argh!
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2. Too weakA new four-door in 1987 weighed 3,221 pounds; its 2016 equal topped 4,000. The extra tonnage per car means many passes can’t accommodate the autos that modern drivers increasingly prefer. The Brooklyn Bridge, for one, bans vehicles more than 3 tons; that’s lighter than many SUVs.
Source: Our bridges are failing. Here’s how we could fix them. | Popular Science
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Get the Gooferment out of the auto industry. We don’t need them keeping us “safe” from our own choices. That’s what liberty is all about. The opportunity to make one’s own choices for good or for bad. How else can people learn to “look both ways before they buy something”?
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Susette Kelo’s famous “little pink house,”which became an iconic symbol of the Kelo case. Some fourteen years after a controversial Supreme Court decision upheld the use of eminent domain to seize homes for transfer to private developers, the state where the case originated may finally pass a law that curtails such abuses.
Source: [Ilya Somin] Will Connecticut Finally Enact Meaningful Eminent Domain Reform?
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Kelo is a national disgrace!
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The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a devastating series of suicide attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more than 320 people. The claim, accompanied by a photo and video of the men the group said had unleashed the carnage, emerged more than two days
Source: Islamic State group claims Sri Lanka suicide bombings
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“Eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind”?
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Ask any college student in the U.S all the ways in which college bleeds money from attendees and you will have a pretty substantial list. From outrageous textbook prices with baffling sell-back returns to the cost of tuition to the ways, they find to nickel and dime you after you have paid tuition (i.e parking passes, dorm costs).
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Seems like corruption is rampant in “Big Education”. Time for DOJ to get ramped up for prosecutions?
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