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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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My alma mater, Northwestern, also has a history of hiring these Hamas clowns as professors, as well supporting anti-Semitic Hamas creeps on campus/supporting boycott and divestment of Israel.
The last time they called me for money, I cussed them out in words not printable in this forum.
Northwestern University is becoming Nazi University. They won’t even have to change their logo.
Makes me want to listen to “Not now, John” by Pink Floyd. Sounds cool when they throw the F-bomb around; not so much coming from an educator in a top 10-rated school in the country.
Eloquent, sage advice from another instructor. No wonder your college educated kids are mean and stupid.
Can we deport her ?
Universities need to fire antiSemitic and anti American professors. Students should not pay for activism, hatred and brainwashing.
The U of C should champion free speech. However, I certainly hope that its leadership is considering some rails to the likes of this professor less this storied institution follows the declination of Harvard and Columbia.
The University of Chicago must be so proud of the eloquence of this socialist.