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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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Millions for public schools that teach nothing but how to hate America, how to do your own sex change
This is the point. The education system today sees learning the 3R’s as a distraction to woke indoctrination.
More money for pensioners to buy homes in Punta Gorda, Fl.
Legal pot will give the students a higher education.
CPS graduates 6 graders from HS.
Once again folks, don’t confuse funding (also called taxation) with an educational outcome.
Just ask any retired educator in Florida…..