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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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And cue the hand wringing and finger pointing when said employee loses it one day and the school is ringed with police, EMT’s , social workers and violence interruptors.
‘Cuz its so normal for people to wave knives in the faces of other employees while at work, threaten them and use offensive language…happens every day. What’s the big deal? Its not like they misgendered someone or took down a rainbow flag. Absolutely, put them back on the job, payroll and pension program…because that’s who we should be hiring for these jobs and that who we want in schools with kids. These people are scary stupid. No Common sense.
Here are a few reasons from John Stossel and others on how hard it is to fire a bad teacher. These are articles from close to 20 years ago and things have become worse and more costly to taxpayers.
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338
https://www.newsweek.com/why-we-must-fire-bad-teachers-69467
https://atlanticsentinel.com/2010/03/fire-bad-teachers/
Here’s a new article from Stossel
https://prescottenews.com/2022/09/28/opinion-school-choice-winning-john-stossel/