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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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What are differences in reading comprehension levels between black and white residents? Suspect that black residents with a 12th grade reading comprehension level earn as much, if not more, than white residents with same comprehension level. It’s a class issue, compounded by fact that CPS fails to sufficiently educate its CPS HS graduates to perform at 12th grade (or even 9th grade) reading/math proficiency levels. A significant percentage of CPS HS graduates are functionally illiterate. CTU’s response is to lobby for elimination of all proficiency testing, to eliminate any recognition of that unexcusablely low performance outcome. “Reparations” notion fails to… Read more »
If you think about it Welfare, SNAP, WIC and every other safety net program since LBJ has been a managed reparation program.
Well LBJ, I consider it a slow bleed to the productive elements of society and yes its been going on for 60 years. It’s why Old Joe has paid 30% of his earnings to the gubmint since he started working.
So the way to stop Black Chicagoans from fleeing Chicago is to redistribute money. Just for argument’s sake, let’s say they got their $1,000,000 each from Chicago, would they be required to stay in the city limits? Or would they just use that money to buy massive homes in Barrington Hills?
Debtsor, if they really hit it big they move to Martha’s Vinyard!
No it doesn’t!! It shows the indifference that the elite blacks of Chicago have for their fellow citizens. Yhea I said it!
Here comes Chicago’s Reparations Racket