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"The student demands from the University of Chicago's anti-Israel encampment is a giant progressive wishlist that goes well beyond Gaza."
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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Sure are a demanding bunch! U of C students posture to be like the Ivy’s, but not in a good way.
Think these punks should spend some time in jail…..really sick of their BS
Maybe you should stop hiding your faces also!!!
If students don’t like what university is investing in, leave the university.
Are these the same students that are getting their student loans paid for by the taxpayers?
They want to defund the police while surrounded by some of the most violent neighborhoods in Chicago. These people are completely b******t crazy.
Defund the police in Hyde Park, eh? While “colonizing” campus!
It used to be you had to have a three digit IQ to get into U of C. By reading this list of unachievable demands and policies that have failed miserably in the past, it is clear that a high IQ bar is no longer required.
How many of these folks are actually UChicago students? The article quotes and pictures masked “protestors,” and calls them “students,” but identifies nobody.