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Councilman Patrick Kelly lauded the training as an investment “in our people.” Councilman Benny White said DEI is a sustainability issue. “If we as a community can’t acknowledge each other, have training (and) do things that allow us to grow as a community,” White said, “we’re not going to be able to sustain ourselves.”
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 fail to see how “ acknowledging
one another “ translates into an unfair advantage to those that check one box or another.
Massive waste of taxpayer money. These Maoist struggle sessions simply must stop. Extreme identity politics is polarizing our citizens, not bringing us together. Paying 6 figures to virtue signal abuses taxpayers. Many in our community are struggling financially, due to inflation and inequality, and those struggling folks would be far better served with lower taxes, if we are so flush with extra money. I think we all understand that this is a hangover from 2020, when our elites and mainstream media all instantly and uncritically rallied around Jussie Smollett and indicted the good people of Chicago without a trial. Then… Read more »
DEI = Didn’t Earn It
DEI = division, intimidation, and entitlement.