-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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If they could you would think after 8 years more than 5% students would even be able to read and write at a 3rd grade level.
The small amount of time actually spent learning anything in between meals, time outs for those feeling stressed, phys ed, CRT/LGBQ etc curriculum is really nothing to brag about insofar as keeping the students attention.
Chicago Teachers Union is a cancer upon Chicago and Illinois. They are no longer Teachers and are now a political terrorist organization. CTU must be surgically removed and irradiated and then we will have a new birth of freedom.
I would say that about all state or local government unions. What need for unions when the state writes the rules, laws? That is their job to look out for their workers.
Eliminate the right to strike and making political contributions and they would evaporate.
Make PUBLIC unions illegal.