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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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Just a reminder: canceling this program also has a negative effect on private schools in many other cities in Illinois
Chicago Archdiocese is failing at its mission to serve its Catholic membership. Without Catholic schools K-12, Catholic faith loses more of next generation’s young adults, generation after generation. This is clearly evident went you view the churchgoers at Sunday mass – lots of white-haired senior citizens, few young adults.
Just because the “Tax Credit” expires does not mean the program is over. So instead of concentrating on those that give a larger donation to get the credit advertise the program to many smaller donors. Someone who donates $10 does not care about getting a $7.50 credit on their taxes. Multiply that by tens of thousands of donor and the program continues. The media is more to blame than the pols since they make it sound like the program is gone. Just the tax credit is so why don’t they explain it better? We know why. People can still contribute… Read more »
This topic is being discussed on twitter. Many of the comments are “Good, kids shouldn’t be taught at Catholic schools” because these anti-human zealots hate religion. It’s better to force children to into schools where the kids can’t read or write, instead of voluntarily attending a religious school where he learns a little about god.
Instead of learning something about God/Jesus they learn about how to change their gender or get an abortion which pleases Moloch a great deal. Now learning about the Morlocks or Eloi’s is fine with me. The original Time Machine was a good movie.
The left has their own religion which is centered around being anti-Judeo-Christian. They reject every Judeo-Christian value, and many time, objective facts, just to be anti-Christian. And most of these people weren’t even raised religious either, they have little if any contact with religion or religious people, so it’s not a first hand experience of being anti-religion. These people just need to hate and they direct their hate towards every religion (except Islam, they like that for some reason).
No prayers allowed in public schools but this was allowed last year.
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/10/27/two-muslim-imams-opened-illinois-house-this-week/
Here’s the opening prayer in the U.S. House so that’s OK but not in any public school.
http://chaplain.house.gov/archive/index.html