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"And others with loud public megaphones ignore the damage the CTU has visited upon Black and brown children through the shutdown of government schools, instead draping themselves in DuSable Drive virtue signaling.Enjoy, my friends. One thing: Not everyone in Chicago is nourished by symbolism when serious problems are chronically ignored."
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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Why isn’t Lake Shore Drive named after St. George Floyd, or Garner, or Brown or all the rest of those who resisted arrest? Sophia King and the black caucus gave into blm and antifa in removing the Columbus statues. It’s time to protect our heritage before these domestic terrorists destroy our history.
Another issue other than the phony virtue flaunting is that some of the names the City comes up with don’t mean a thing to anyone–even in the minority communities. Ask people who “Bishop Ford” is and you get a bunch of blank stares even from African Americans. Several folks I have talked to think that Washington Park is named after Harold. And I wonder what percentage of Chicagoans black or white can tell you who Dan Ryan was.
And the Stevenson Expressway, unfortunately most are clueless.