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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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The US Supreme Court said discrimination based on race is illegal. Ralph disagrees. Got it.
Our constitution is directly opposed to today’s progressive dogma because the constitution is an obstacle to their politics. Today, progressives believe that Ibraim X. Kendi’s vision of America should be: ‘The Only Remedy to Past Discrimination Is Present Discrimination’. And that’s the thing with progressive politics, ‘progress’ means ever changing political views, today it’s state sanctioned racism, tomorrow it’s throwing deplorables into camps. But the 14th Amendment ratified in 1868 is an obstacle to the progressive vision of America. A progressive America would look very, very different than what our constitution currently provides for. In fact, the 14th Amendment, and… Read more »
This guy is such a boob. Affirmative action is nothing more than racial discrimination. The best and brightest should go to the elite universities, that’s how capitalism works. Maybe CPS should do a better job of preparing its student to get into ANY college. I don’t have a great degree from a great college but I ended up being fairly successful. I have a friend that barely graduated high school and he’s more successful than me. Hard work and respect will get you a lot further than education and a bad attitude.
His narrative is awful. It was acceptable to have blacks receive a lousy education so long as affirmative action was available at our top 100 or schools, the only place where affirmative action has mattered; a relatively small slice of the population?
Ralph clutches his pearls as he ignorantly rages on after losing one of the most important spoils system run by the Democrat Party. Ralph knows that discrimination based upon race is wrong in every context, but he must, like a supplicating fool, recite the Kendiism antiracist slogan: ‘The Only Remedy to Past Discrimination Is Present Discrimination”.
“Ralph knows”? Doubtful. I’m pretty sure he is fully on board with the koolaid and is passing it around,
What does not discriminating against Asian American students have to do with K-12 education?
Union paid prostitute Martire is responsible for union sponsored laws that have trashed IL public schools.