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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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Wait, wait, wait…..JB insists that under his leadership school results are fantastic. Illinois is leading the way for education across the nation. Who are we to believe? Facts? Statistics? or the bloviating of Mr Toilet?
CTU as ruined the CPS. They are nothing but plate glass salesmen.
CTU and CPS jointly guarantee an ignorant and indoctrinated Chicago population – exactly what liberals need to stay in office.
I’m past believing this is all “accidental.” There are plans in play.
They don’t really need a plan. The disaster in our schools is just the inevitable result of insane people implementing their insane ideas. No planning needed, so long as nothing stops them.
22 states now have educational choice — in crooked corrupt Democrat and union run Illinois, educational choice disrupts the dirty money flow from schools to unions to Democrat party bosses — so they need to make up lies about it — like CTU Boss Stacy Davis Gates’ claim that private schools are ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ — even though she sends her kid to a private school