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"Nothing illustrates the perversity of the 'equity' agenda and its hostility toward the exceptional and exemplary quite like progressive officials’ efforts to cut overachievers down to size for the imagined benefit of everyone else. Chicago’s chief social engineer, Mayor Brandon Johnson, is only the latest to join that crusade."
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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Reminder: Communism is when ugly deformed freaks make it illegal to be normal then rob kill all successful people out of petty resentment and cruelty. The ideology is all just window dressing.
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Marxism is the race to the lowest common denominator.
“Equity” is a race to the bottom-percentile of achievement, not a race to the top.
Where is a will there is a way.
When I was in HS in Champaign they did not offer calculus.
My Dad came to me and told me I was going to graduate early which I did. Then I enrolled at the University of Illinois and took calculus, physics, Intro to Engineering, etc.
From the article: “When it comes to crime prevention, illegal immigration, and a half dozen other hot-button issues, Chicago’s voters have proven themselves pigheadedly committed to a set of near-suicidal public policies. But the city is now drafting those voters’ kids into a grand experiment that is more likely than not to imperil their prospects for future success. Will the city simply absorb this latest assault on the social compact, all in the name of equity? We will soon find out…” Frankly, I’m not sanguine that many will challenge this “new normal”… the voters are overwhelmingly a bunch of uninformed/disengaged… Read more »
There is an interesting take on the voters, ” Joes & Sallys of Cook & the Collars” that you mention on a guest article over at John Kass’ website. Its defiantly worth a read here:
https://johnkassnews.com/there-are-no-victims-of-the-system/
As to the students I think you are spot on and the parents apparently could care less. Humans are not equal in all abilities and I can not understand why parents want all students equally unsuccessful but I guess the Joe’s and Sally’s of Chicago could really care less.
Dan left out his own participation in the grift! LOL Folks might actually get somewhere if people like Dan weren’t leading them into the gutter of despair. Look up how to lose and argument and do some reading. Eventually, you’ll discover the argumentum ad baculum, one of Dan’s preferred tools, and you will be enlightened.
He’s not wrong though \o/