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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky

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Sunday links.


Cairo, Egypt. May 4th.
John Dillon’s Pension Vocabulary Word of the WeekMisinformation. “Working as a hand puppet for the Illinois Policy Institute, ABC’s Chuck Goudie, the crack investigative reporters for the “I” Team (Eyewitness News) on Channel 7 Chicago, announced that he and the IPI had uncovered a “brand new and improved” pension scam as Illinois face “a financial cliff.” Goudie’s sober delivery and impeccable report would have made William Randolph Hearst Proud. I found  my own heart racing and anger escalating toward the local high school, but then I wondered if there were other sides to this perceived theft. Why would Channel 7 run such a story?”
Robert Reich. “With only 115,000 jobs in April, the hole is getting even deeper.”
In five years, after billions of dollars down the drain, they will conclude that the Common Core, like