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Rahm: "We've gone through five years where everybody is far too permissive about our culture, which is why everything is locked up at Walgreens and CVS.... I don't want to hear another word about the locker room. I don't want to hear another word about the bathroom. You better start focusing on the classroom."
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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All of a sudden Tiny Dancer is everywhere what’s he getting ready to run for?
So Rahm and Fareed are far right extremists as well as transphobic? What’s this world coming to? I thought “Love Trumps Hate” was the answer. lol
In all seriousness this is a great thing. We need Democrats to speak out about these horribly run cities to get any change. Those city voters can be swayed to vote for a different kind of Democrat but not someone with an R by their name.
The way I understand it, Rahm wasn’t very liked as Ambassador to Japan. You didn’t see anything about his time there, which leads me to believe that what I read was true of his pushing for Japan to be more LGBTQ and that that caused tension, and it didn’t sit well with the elders.
Did anyone see Pritzker on the “View” on Friday? I don’t watch that show but it was mentioned on some news show yesterday so I watched his segment online. He was on for over 20 minutes.
Yes, I watched that great think tank’s segment ; ) Nothing new really.
You watched it so we didn’t have to 🙂
Let’s see, I could watch Pritzker on The View for 20 minutes or I could beat my head against a wall for 20 minutes…. hard to say which would be more painful…
Wow. The Rahmfather speaks volumes of truth here.
Wait…didn’t the Chi-town shenanigans escalate under his rule? Not as bad as under Lightweight, but…
Hoo boy! It’s like they’ve joined us at Wirepoints.
Did you catch Rahm’s comment at the 5:38 mark? He just had to boast “as someone who has produced the best graduation growth in the country” and then everyone claps. Most people hear a stat like that and think it’s a good thing but no critical thinking is done to even ask if the standards were lower. The audience is so easily and quickly fooled.
You still have more work to do Mark.
Yes, and he is still bragging about the new 100K cops put on the ground during the Clinton Administration. It never came to nearly that yet the myth endures.