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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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Let them strike. The kids unfortunate enough to go to the CPS schools won’t be getting any less of an education than they are now receiving by Zoom.
Do it. Do it. Do it. PLEASE STRIKE CTU!!! CTU’s anti-student and militant go-to-hell to the taxpayer behavior has finally been exposed and is on full view to everyone in Illinois ever since the Wuhan Virus sham started. Finally CTU is exposing themselves for the frauds that they are and for all of Chicago to see. CTU is showing that they dont give a fig about students and education and only care about theft, greed, sloth and their vermin membership. Chicago voters and taxpayers need to realize and fully understand the evil that this Union represents. Do it. Do it.… Read more »
The last strike had surprisingly little support other than CTU members themselves and the media. They had to parade through the streets, like freaks, to demand fealty from peasant taxpayers, shouting at them through megaphones and chanting loudly to disrupt their work day.
But now with coronavirus, and an empty downtown, I dare ask, if a union protests in the streets, but no one is around hear it, will anyone even care? I sure don’t.