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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 lived in Columbus at one time. Their museum if you can call it that would exhibit ethnic art quite often. I would hang around these rooms to see who would come in to enjoy the art. Most people walked in, saw the questionable art and turned around. Virtually no one stayed for long and yet the museum continued to exhibit this DEI stuff. I stopped donating
Having been an Art Museum docent, an artist, a college educated aging white woman and a retired professional advocate within the disability community, I can tell you this issue is more nuanced than is being given credit. I found the Museum’s read on the non-diversity of their docents to be refreshingly honest, intuitively obvious and all too comically endemic. There are great costs in continuing to maintain what I felt was a stultifying closed environment. At critical junctures, preventing forward or progressive movements at more diverse community outreach. Even and especially now, when the art within the walls of these… Read more »
You must have Stockholm Syndrome. The communists destroyed a working and functional system and intend to replace it with an equitable monstrosity. And you are defending it. The Bolsheviks in July 1918 needed to sweep their arms across a desk to clear the decks and their mind too. It is sad the AIC has destroyed its reputation and made a mockery of itself before the entire nation in the name of equity. As I said, it won’t be long before the Caravaggios are sold off to rich asian collectors for make room for unknown modern artists with the correct intersectional… Read more »
Put a non qualified affirmative action director in charge and they will surely screw up everything they touch. The Art Institute, so eager to have diversity and equity, have proven this fact once again. Soon the works of the worlds greatest artist will be removed and hip hop ghetto graffiti will be the main attraction.
Would you, should you expect anything less glaringly racist? I wouldn’t even bother thinking about the Art Institute. It’s in Chicago which reflexively makes it an undesirable destination.
What else would one expect from a Peter Principle promoted individual? Firing qualified, talented, dedicated volunteers because they were white is an absolute glaring racist move but will go forward without any consequences. Try firing an entire group of black workers and then replace them with whites and see what happens. The Art Institute should burn to the ground in my opinion.
First they turned our government, courts and legacy media into a laughing stock without any ethical rudder. Then they turned the exterior of the City (the streets of Chicago) into a dangerous and undesirable place, which one should avoid. Apparently now it is time to do the same inside our institutions, so they are ineffective in their missions. Then the transformation will be complete.
D.I.E. – diversity, inclusion, equity – the acronym says it all.
Everything “woke” turns to shit!