Chinese firm Gotion has announced multiple EV battery component plants in the U.S. over the last 12 months, including one in Manteno, Illinois.
Ted joined Shaun Thompson to talk about about the Chicago Teachers Union’s absurd new contract demands, why so many Chicago teachers are chronically absent, and Brandon Johnson’s failed first year as mayor.
What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
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Here in another article about all the EV’s and the problems people who own them talk about.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/electric-cars-having-more-problems-182844280.html
None of our politicians ever listen to what the consumers of EV’s have to say after owning them for a while.
Without the incentives who would actually buy one? The incentives are like the discounts given to closeout sales to entice buyers.
In China Joe Trusts. I’m sure it’s got nothing to do, nothing at all, with the ChiCom payments to the Biden family.
China builds a lot of low cost EV vehicles. Biden, as a gift to the UAW, has assorted trade regulations that keep the low cost cars out forcing the American consumer to pay considerably more for a vehicle. However the Democrats want to pay the Chinese to build their batteries in the USA. So the USA consumer has to pay more for a vehicle, pay more taxes so the Chinese can be paid to make their batteries here and Biden/Pritzker get headlines about making the USA an EV place. Interestingly enough though it convinces the bobbleheads that all is well… Read more »
It is sad that some people, for some reason, can’t put two and two together and see the the corruption taking place right in front of their eyes. This is it – they aren’t even hiding it now… If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck it is probably a….moose. Wake up people.
In Illinois it is not about corruption but rather its the unions and the free stuff army that head to the polls on election day and the one that promises the most freebies wins. Karl Marx for example could get elected here if he promised enough food stamps and blamed all the problems on MAGA extremists.
Don’t disagree with you note…but ya know…there is plenty of corruption in Illinois as well as Biden, Fat Man and the rest.
There will be a ton of kickbacks for the politically connected or at the very least lucrative positions.