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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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I am terrified for the future of this state because there is no good candidate for governor. Rauner does nothing and Pritzger will destroy this state. Time to get out.
I have been trying to expose Glenn Singleton and his Pacific Education Group, SEED, and Peggy McIntosh’s “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” for over a decade. When I worked full-time in the writing center at Deerfield High School, I criticized the feckless, racist efforts and expense of Singleton to the administration and school board. Singleton found out and in a meeting with all department chairs, he called for me to be fired (a department chair told me the next day, and two others confirmed it), boasting that he had gotten people fired in other districts. Two weeks later, I was removed… Read more »
Your experience is horrible but not surprising. We hear lots off the record from teachers who don’t like they but are afraid to talk publicly. I understand that for younger teachers who face retribution. For older teachers who are tenured or retired, however, I have little respect for those who aren’t speaking up.
Wow Mark, great article/analysis ! I looked at the SEED “project” website — IT’S FRIGHTENING ! And the founder Peggy McIntosh wrote the “seminal” paper in 1988 on White Privilege & Male Privilege. She even earned a PhD in the subject, from Harvard. Here’s her classic paper, from which derived SO much attention in academia and spawned a plethora of racist/sexist/hate-filled majors in universities: —— https://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack ———- Notice she demands all Whites and esp all White Males, learn, understand and acknowledge how privileged they are, and do ALL THEY CAN TO END IT (whatever that means). How about this common-sense… Read more »
It seems as important as breathing to virtue-signal.
Pandering to supposed victim-hood is, in itself, victimization.
Segregation is alive and well in the democrat party.