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“Very little surprises me anymore in this Capitol building. But knowing how the scales have been tipped in the Chicago Public School system’s favor with regards to funding over the years … for the mayor and his minions to try and bully lawmakers into giving more money, claiming they are being shortchanged, is absolutely outrageous,” said state Sen. Don DeWitte.
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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What a fine lookin bunch of, of, forget it.
Look at that photograph of red clad terrorist parasites. Disgusting. They should have been in class with their students.
They are allowed to take days outside of the classroom. It’s in their contract that they collectively bargained, as is their constitutional right. Don’t hate on the constitution TPG.
only 200 to 250 out of 650 chosen CTU members bothered to showed up for “day of action” in Springfield, per several news outlets. Apparently the rest took the day off on the taxpayers dime while kids got stuck with subs as usual….EQUITY!!!
Collective Bargaining is not a constitutional right. In fact these buffoons are the Poster Children of why Public Sector Unions will soon be illegal and declared unconstitutional.
Wrong as usual TPG. We don’t operate from your make believe laws. We operate based on our constitution. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The 10th amendment reserves powers to the states. The Illinois constitution clearly uses that power with the states constitution. SECTION 25. WORKERS' RIGHTS (a) Employees shall have the fundamental right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of negotiating wages, hours, and working conditions, and to… Read more »
Sounds like extortion.
CPS goes “Goodfellas”, FU pay me.
Fewer students, disgracefully ineffective teaching, and they ask for a huge raise??
They need to have their balloons
prickedpopped!Love to see republican comments. Only wish Channel 7 news would pick them up.
JUST SAY NO