-- 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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Time for these teachers that supposedly are disgruntled with Gates et al to stand up and drop her union square on its ass. If they don’t, then we know that they approve of and are in on the money grab.
It’s funny that people get upset when teachers are painted with a broad brush. It’s not their fault, it’s the voters fault!
But those people never acknowledge that teachers vote specifically on union leadership. Union leadership is clearly driving the crazy bus. Becky Pringle, Randi Weingarten, Stacy Davis Gates. But it’s not the teachers’ fault. It’s all those other voters.
Teachers unions are not traditional union. They are political. Change their designation to political lobbyists. They’re too busy pushing leftist propaganda, and not supporting education.
Teacher Unions are all about MONEY, Benefits and Pensions— that will never change. Education is not their business never has been, never will be.