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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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Stopped going to the Art Institute after they fired all the white docents in the name of “equity”. I was a member for many years, and going to the Art Institute was one of my favorite things to do; it was one of the first things I showed to out – of – town visitors, I was so proud of the place. A pity, it’s still another once – great institution that’s been ruined by the race/equity grifters… Chicago museum fires all of its mostly White female, financially well-off docents for lack of diversity – Docents at the Art Institute… Read more »
Good post. I remember it well.
One of the reasons I don’t go to the Art Institute is because the payroll manager embezzled 2 million dollars over a period of 13 years. I’m just sick of the greed and corruption and no oversight.
Also, firing the docents was stupid and senseless.
Thieves and idiots run the show in Chicago.
YIKES! I had forgotten about that payroll embezzler… how poorly – run can an organization be…!!!???
Hmm, first those too white docents and now Joose. I think the museum is trying to knock Harvard out of 1st place.
Unsurprisingly, virulent racists don’t care for the superficial nuances between various groups of whites. To them, the Boers, Argentinians, Sicilians, Finnish, and Slavs are all one in the same.