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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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IBSE are all misfits and destroying Illinois!
“Outbreak is defined by at least five cases.”
So a school with say 100 cases in a student body of 2,600 has less than 4% infected. Every kid will recover. Let’s shut down the school?
Wait, I thought the jabs worked? Are we still mandating them for teachers and admin? If they work, why are we still shutting down schools with an arbitrarily low one size fits all case counts?
The only way out of this cycle is to remove these psychopaths from their positions, which includes the politicized ISBE. Seeking justice through the courts isn’t feasible in IL.