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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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https://www.yahoo.com/news/very-homophobic-teachers-union-leader-randi-weingarten-says-house-hearing-crossed-the-line-145203434.html
She is the main reason for garbage curriculum and school closures. How many private schools closed?
So is the loss in purchasing power under the Old Joe!
If Lightfoot had had the courage to say things like this DURING the wuhan virus teachers work stoppage farce then she might still be mayor. Instead she spent her time cowering to the vermin teachers union and spewing hate toward Trump.
Good post. My thoughts exactly.
Now that she’s out, she’s acting like the mayor who voters thought they elected.
Finally, Lori makes sense; and it only took years.
I’m not convinced Lori is correct. She’s simply spitting vitriol, as she always does, and because it is targeted at people we hate, we believe she is making sense. But she’s not making sense, she’s just lashing out at everyone, for any reason, it not like she ever thought anything through.
Yep, she may have been the first public official to drop the F bomb on a sitting President.