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Ted was on Chicago’s Morning Answer with Dan and Amy to warn Illinoisans about the utter collapse of student outcomes during Pritzker’s COVID lockdowns, how Amendment 1 could lead to police and firefighter strikes and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
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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Cops going on strike when SAFE T kicks in won’t really matter so much as law enforcement as it is now would be just a waste of money. Cops will be hog tied, criminals will run the show, be prepared, Illinois has a concealed carry law, use it.
Call me a Conspiracy Guy, but this EXACTLY what Ruling Elite want. Local departments go on strike during upcoming economic crisis. Next up, we REALLY find out why federal government budgeted 80,000+ IRS agents.
Police strikes occur now in France
$30k per student and most can’t read or do math at grade level? Just another ILL political metric—which, as per almost all IL political metrics, is at the bottom levels of performance. Why?
I expect the tests will be dumbed down so results can miraculously improve. .