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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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Hey kids, you’re going to school in a progressive paradise which means don’t leave the dorm without it!
In Brazil, they allow extreme prejudice against robbers attacking people, and you can find videos of the robbers on motorcycles being mowed down by people with cars who witness the crime. Even the announcement of such a policy in the U.S. could put a serious chill on this type of crime. As another commenter mentioned below, it doesn’t take many such incidents to ruin the reputation of a city or area.
Bernard Goetz didn’t like robbers either!
Just read DePaul’s published Anti-Racism statement. It is chock full of acknowledgements of European colonialism, white supremacy, embedded structural racism and other such professed “acknowledgements” and “recognitions”. There were and continue to be BLM banners all throughout campus and the neighborhood. The supposed Catholic university has declined to such an extent that it cannot even acknowledge all lives matter. This stuff enables soft on crime, defund the police, jails are racist and other such thinking. Seems DePaul has enabled the “sad reality”. They don’t need press releases, but rather a total reboot in thinking.
Chicago is not the place to get a quality education. Unless you want to graduate from the school of hard knocks. The crime is one good reason not to enroll in Chicago schools or universities. Not safe to attend DePaul or the University of Chicago or the University of Illinois or Roosevelt University…(See article Former Roosevelt University student gets probation for stabbing classmate. In Chicago probation for a violent unprovoked attack is normal.) Also, because of administrative bloat and mismanagement, tuition and fees are ridiculous. And let’s not forget the whopping SURS pensions that have made faculty members and administrators… Read more »
Well Penny, I think 3 conservatives have been formed….
Not safe to send your kids there. Only takes one bad incident.
This is BJ’s reparations program in action