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A website reveals the planning and strategy behind the current college mayhem. "The Illinois memo advises students to “be prepared to escalate your actions in order to continue making it more expensive..."
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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How is it “non-violent anti-war protesting” to call for the destruction of another country?
If they cannot successfully evict the occupiers, why don’t the institutions just seal them off? Cut utilities? (I suppose they would need to leave sprinklers operational in case of fire– maybe this is logistically impossible?) Arrest only those who choose to leave?
It’d be a costly mess to clean up. I suppose the alternative is something like what Northwestern has done, tho that might set a difficult precedent.