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.
Because everybody knows you can’t possibly teach children to read until the climate is brought under control, preferably of the CTU. These are the people who are paid to teach your children. Surprising they have enough time for this amid the gender queer and intifada lessons.
Take their indignation and outrage to China, which has a bigger carbon footprint that the next three countries in the world and a larger one than about 20 smaller countries in total. Please go lip off to the CCCP on their home court and let us know how it went if, er when, you come back.
Are they seeking blue skies everyday and 70 degree weather too? How about free transportation and free housing once graduated? Retirement age moved up to 35? Pensions for teachers and for students? Can we rid ourselves of guns too since everyone will be living in nirvana? All brought to you by those evil rich people being taxed…fairly of course…