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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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I stopped reading/listening to George Will after stabbed conservative, God fearing, law abiding, patriotic americans in the back during last two elections.
Every administrator who was party to this fascist behavior should be fired and their pensions forfeit.
Ironically, do you want to know what will further disparity in wealth? The fear that hiring someone based on their abilities may expose one to risk when they FEEL as though they may have been slighted they decide to use the nuclear option.
It almost makes you wonder if this was created for reasons other than trying to protect equal opportunity for all…
In every one of these cases, Georgetown the latest, the administration and these equity offices immediately cave in to a single woke complaint. How must the faculty feel knowing that no one has their back, no matter how trivial? Major punishments, loss of tenure, pay, etc. And a lot of these are even law schools, ignoring basic legal principles.
I graduated from a small Catholic college 26 years ago, and it was already there, but much more subtle… wokeists testing how much average students from working class families would tolerate. They didn’t spout accusations when we called them on their nonsense. FF to now and my younger cousins and nieces who are college aged (and not woke), are losing out on a super important aspect of college… the act of debate and discussion. Without it, what’s the point? (Rhetorical intended) I’ve started telling my students that in this day and age, you most certainly don’t need to go to… Read more »
I believe the backlash to all this *woke* nonsense is going to be so ironic to the progressive leftists… My belief is that with all the shortages in the *skilled trades*, there will be a boom in trade school graduates… It’s these tradesmen & tradeswomen that have the real power… If they can just rid their unions of the corruption & support for the left (D), they can wield some true power for the good of us all… After all who’s going to build & more importantly maintain all the *infrastructure*…??? Blue collar workers are the backbone of our great… Read more »
The future of skilled trades isn’t the conservative blue collar worker. It’s a unionized socialist BIPOC worker who will go to the head of the line for equity and works twice as slow as the current unionized worker. Just look at California. 20 years later they’re still building on section of that high speed rail line.
Funny how the HR department sets up a big Rube Goldberg machine to literally destroy anyone who gets out of line. Then all they have to do is pull the trigger, everything from that point on is a series of humiliating activities that rain down on the victim, automatically and in sequence, until the man is broken, Ingenious. I feel sorry for the guy, but he was probably a wokester too, he’ll either be converted into a republican, or beaten into a proper wokester, or leave. Get out the popcorn its entertaining to watch these cannibals. Eventually every big HR… Read more »
Happened to my buddy at B of A. A snowflake underneath him complained to HR about him saying he was mean or hurt her feelings or some crap like that. Rather than the snowflake providing proof they went through all his emails. Didn’t find any evidence of what she accused him of but found some technicality and he was fired. Thank god I don’t work at a place like that or I’d be long gone.
Holy shit! This poor guy. He apologizes for nothing and has to forfeit a raise and endure this bullshit re-education bullshit training?
I think the world has lost its collective minds. Most black folks wouldn’t even agree with what UIC is doing here, I’m positive of that.
How does treating this man like this help anything?
Democrats have enabled this hypocrisy to fester. The pols had better be careful. Retribution will come eventually, either at the ballot box, or at the hands of the “equity warriors” they’ve enabled for political gain.
As a UIC alum, I find this disturbing and embarrassing
Same here, I’m going to send a letter letting them know I’m embarrassed to say I graduated from there. And as Waggs commented above I didn’t really learn anything. It did allow me to check the box for college degree required when applying for jobs.
Those disturbingly described university offices – Office for Access and Equity and the Behavioral Threat Assessment Team – and the actions taken by them, should make parents deeply investigate where little Jonny and Kimmy go to school before they send applications and write checks.
Was the guy walking out on Lake Michigan Ice a couple weeks ago from UIC?
UC – way different, in every sense.
What’s more amazing to me is that working class taxpayers, who may never go to college, in Illinois must pay taxes to prop up this sanctioned buffoonery at the state college.
Or, if you going to uic (at +$24,000 a year?) and can barely afford it and are taking out student loans, etc to pay for it your forced to that class in all this equity hustle bs to graduate…but i guess jbs coming to rescue with $3 billion in fed covid-arpa / map grant funds for supposed low income students
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Fixed it: https://www.washtimesherald.com/even-by-todays-standard-of-campus-cowardice-and-conformity-this-repulsive-episode-is-noteworthy/article_d966cdd0-8b61-11ec-8103-77afab7989f2.html
article is really good https://www.washtimesherald.com/even-by-todays-standard-of-campus-cowardice-and-conformity-this-repulsive-episode-is-noteworthy/article_d966cdd0-8b61-11ec-8103-77afab7989f2.html