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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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The state just increased funding for public schools – again. Public Schools are a bottomless pit of no result, performance art to gain public money and funding to enrich themselves. The Students do-not-matter…only the funding matters. The Jewish community needs to pay attention to this, because they are telling you (right to your face) who they are and what they believe. The belief system and statements like this from a publicly funded organization like CPS and their teachers union needs to be stopped. These statements are Un-American and the tax payer shouldn’t be forced to support these beliefs or teaching… Read more »
The CTU is the poster child for school choice, home schooling and vouchers.
It’s widely reported that the vast majority of bombs dropped on Gaza by the Israeli military are United States-made. The U.S. is Israel’s primary arms supplier, and has been since the 1960s.
I don’t understand the Jewish community at large. Islamists are similar to the Nazi’s. They wish to erase Judaism as well. The Jewish community appears ambivalent.
Unfortunately there are a lot of Middle and upper class Jewish women who buy into this claptrap from the NEA. It’s time for the Jewish community to wake up and realize who there friends and enemies are.