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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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You seem to be confusing conservatives with democratic klan members. Remember, ALL confederates were DEMOCRATS.
Keep fighting Stacy. The repukes don’t care about schools or kids. They would rather see immigrant kids starve and live on the streets instead of feeding and educating them. Horrible people that you should ignore.
How many immigrant kids have you taken in to your house?
Don’t worry, Joe. Stacy’s going to be all right. CPS’s total enrollment keeps falling while chronic student absenteeism and budgets both keep growing, so the CTU has plenty of empty seats to fill and plenty of resources to deliver a solid education. Why, if I were a betting man, I’d wager that CPS’s student performance will outperform the last few years. 😉
Yet Stacy sends her kids to a better school than the ones she champions, pulls down a hefty salary and can’t manage to pay taxes on her other property or her water bill. Yep, a real humanitarian in the mold of the mayor of Dolton.
LOL…….TRUMP 2024
Sourpuss Stacey best not be chasing all those conservatives out of Chicago and Illinois. They’re the ones that actually pay their taxes.
Right about that one!
Stacey has to travel to another neighborhood to buy things in the store! OMG the horror! My town doesn’t have a Best Buy and I have to travel not one but TWO towns over! My town doesn’t have any good Mexican food restaurants so I have to travel the next town over just to get a decent taco! And the grocery stores in my town, I have to DRIVE there, I can’t walk there, they are several miles away, and on busy streets without sidewalks. OMG THE HORROR.
If you want to see a Marxist Democrat look no further than the CTU.
Ha! Who does Stacy think she’s punking? Her anxiety isn’t rising because Brandon’s her ace in the hole. He’ll deliver the CTU’s goodies. Just you watch.
It is very difficult to take Ms. Gates seriously. Her problem isn’t with conservatives, but rather with the financial constraints of the City. There isn’t nearly enough revenue to meet the union’s demands. Johnson may commit funds he won’t have, leading to drastic cuts elsewhere, including public safety. But even then revenue is scarce in a declining City. There is a reason teachers were running down to Springfield begging for a billion dollars.
She blames conservatives generally because she hates white men. She probably knows and interacts with very few white men on a day to day basis, and those does interact with are addled with soy and somewhere on the intersectional scale. In her mind, every conservative is a white man with a baseball cap, goatee and visor sun glasses; and is a descendant of a slave owner. Even if said white dude is of Polish heritage and of feudal peasant stock. That doesn’t matter to her, because reality doesn’t matter to her. She’s combative against the world for no good reason… Read more »
Blaming conservatives – Johnson did the same with his failed Bring Chicago Home initiative – makes sense to her in the echo chambers she speaks to. But it doesn’t bring any more money into the fisc. Making things worse is that the schools assiduously avoid making even modestly difficult choices. Vastly underutilized schools should be closed. Making such closures a racial identity issue benefits no one. I assume most everyone watched the movie the Breakfast Club filmed at the former Maine North high school. The Maine district had no problem closing that facility because it was underutilized in a post… Read more »
Those underutilized schools provide a source of revenue to people in local community – nearly all of whom are CTU or members of other unions. Closing those schools, and laying them off, cuts off those members’ income. The nearly empty schools effectively function as ‘no-work’ shakedown jobs not to different than in the Sopranos where the mobster coplayed as union workers at the job site, and set up lawn chairs and a grill. At the end of the day, that’s what a lot of this is about: redistribution of taxpayer money into the public school system to funnel money into… Read more »