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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 article states Choi had issues with his colleagues, which I assume means fellow professors, as well as Dennis Judd, the head of the political science department (yet also a professor). Doesn’t that make them all members of the UIC United Faculty union Local 6456? If so, what is the union’s stance on the behavior of their members? I’d bet that if it were the head administrator of the school, the union would be all over this. Yet when it’s member-to-member harassment, the union is silent.
Interesting ! Who’d guess the Poly-Sci Dept at Univ of ILL Chicago was and is a cesspool ? The esteemed Professor Bill Ayers probably fit in nicely, but Prof Choi not so much. Maybe Choi like the U.S. too much for the other profs’ liking — who knows. Bill Ayers is a capitalist-hating avowed marxist, domestic terrorist in his younger days……who worked with Obama on Boards on the southside and had Obama’s first fundraiser at HIS house with Bernadine Dohrn. It takes about 10 seconds to see that Ayers was a full professor making $125,000 in 2010 when Choi was… Read more »
I have no idea whether this particular guy’s case has merit, but the discrimination against Asians in college admissions is now a national disgrace. They a model minority in the melting pot model we used to have. Discrimination decades ago was rampant against them everywhere. California outright prohibited hiring them. They overcame all that and excelled.
Nor do I, but I’d guess it does have some merit. The HuffPo article has a nice photo of Choi with Mt Rushmore in bkgd. Really nice photo. He may be a bit too proud of the U.S. for the liking of the other U of I Chicago Poly-Sci profs…..ESPECIALLY if there were many other profs with warped mindset like Ayers. By the way, Ayers admitted on a video I’ve seen (on youtube) in front of students, that he was the ghost-writer for Obama for ‘Dreams From My Father’…….which is 100% believable for many reasons. Yea, I think Admissions Depts… Read more »