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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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Why not De-Fund the schools and Re-Fund the taxpayers.
NOW WE REALLY HAVE SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR IN NOVEMBER!!
ACLU weighed in on this, said if they defund the police more money can go to schools. The stupidity is just compounding on a daily basis.
Money to schools just equals higher teacher and administrator salaries.
So an irredeemable, unfixable group of folks who have completely failed at their ONE task, educating children, is going to opine on another? The irony is almost unfathomable.
Defund Chicago Public Schools. Prevent them from spreading their SARS-CoV-2 virus.
At last the mighty ctu has entered the battle for social justice just when they can smell more for $them$!! Where’s 1%-er commrad sharkey & gates? Photo looks like, mostly white , presumably teacher, protesters..but ooh, forgot ctu’s mostly white, who’s $6-figure members dont live in systemically racially dis-invested neighborhoods, but instead live in nw side neighborhoods like mine.. the ctu couple next door used to have thier house plastered w every “union proud” signs but quickly changed to blm sign & and scralled in chaulk on sidwalk w kids “remember floyed”, etc (its a thing) they know where thier… Read more »
Fools all total fools
Let the teachers and administrators deal with Tyrell and Javintavious when they start to play the well known monkey games. That should be hilarious. No cops in schools sounds like a great idea since about 99% of all issues in schools do not involve LEO involvement.
Maybe the police will defund themselves and quit all at once. And maybe the farmers will stop producing food. Thats when the real fun begins.