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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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I grew up during 1950-1972 in the Woodlawn-South Shore area and walked 2 miles as a young child to the Kimbark (63rd St) branch of the Chicago public library. The library was located in one of the blackest neighborhoods of the city and virtually every book listed in their card catalog was on the shelf each time I dropped in. The library had virtually no patrons each time I came. Time magazine reported in the late1970’s that parents from low income black families taught their children that the libraries were for white folks. CPS teachers now cannot teach and parents… Read more »
Reading and education are, in general, racist. Didn’t get the memo?
There are assorted problems causing the failure of the Chicago school system to actually teach the children to read and write much less do mathematics at grade level. Rather than address that problem the CTU wants a spending spree that only adds expensive bodies to the problematic pile. The students meanwhile do their time and represent the future of Illinois as they await their time to become registered voters. With this in mind ask yourself is there any future for Illinois other than to trade its Electoral votes for Government handouts? Illinois is fast becoming a low educated welfare State… Read more »
What’s insane is that they want schools and libraries to be the epicenter of Querness. Why libraries and schools that exist solely off taxpayer dollars? Why can’t we have privately funded Quer indoctrination centers not funded by the government? Ask leftist why these two institutions need to be Quer and they give you a bunch of nonsense about ‘safe places’ for kids to be included, but when you ask “Why publicly schools and libraries?” they have no answer other than “Because we can”.
Hmm, is a jock strap a gender support these days?
In the immortal words of Judge Smails “you’ll get nothing and like it!”.
CTU’s support for pedophilia groomers reveals the true motives of CTU members. I wonder how many are pedophiles. Seriously. 30% 50% More?
More unions jobs = more union dues.
Ha ha ha ha ha can’t stop laughing at these morons
It would be funny if only they weren’t teaching our kids, secure in the knowledge they can’t be stopped. And secure in the knowledge that we will have to pay them until the day they die. Not so funny after all.
I don’t see any request for reading, writing or arithmetic staff up. It is going to be hard to get through life without reading or writing or counting your change, so I guess you will just have to get by having your justice restored and your climate fantasies fulfilled. These poor victimized kids!
Spot on Sparty. As Dean von Tersh stated “son, being fat, dumb and poor is no way to go thru life.”
Good old John Vernon played Dean Wormer in Animal house.