Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson equated critics who had something to say about his taking out a $300 million loan to appease the teachers’ union with slaveowners who opposed emancipation.
No, really.
Let’s start with the backstory. Among the Chicago Teachers Union’s host of insane demands, levied with Johnson’s backing, was a demand that the city take out a $300 million, high-interest loan to pay for all the stuff they want - including for the city to take on “$150 million of pension-debt obligations for non-teachers in the CPS system,” the National Review explains. The list of demands was so extravagant, and Johnson’s pressure on the school board to approve the loan so heavy, that the entire Chicago school board unanimously resigned rather than cave to the mayor’s demands.
So Johnson simply named all new ones, who will presumably head-nod everything he and his union buddies want.
In the meantime, the city will take on even more debt, and more borrowed taxpayer cash will flow into a failing school system that has already doubled its per-student spending over the past decade, even as grades have consistently plummeted.
But if you’re not a fan of taking out hundreds of millions in high-interest loans to pay off a teachers union that's behaving like the mafia, you’re just as bad as people who wanted to keep black folks chained up in the cotton fields.
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“The so-called fiscally responsible stewards are making the same argument: when our people wanted to be liberated and emancipated in this country, the argument was, ‘you can’t free Black people because it would be too expensive,” Johnson said in an unhinged tirade this week. “They said it would be fiscally irresponsible for this country to liberate Black people. And now you have detractors making the same argument of the confederacy when it comes to public education in this system. These are the people who package these gimmicks, lied to our people, stole money from our people, refuse to pay into the pension system, left the taxpayers with the bill, and for me to fix it.”
🚨This is insane. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said critics who oppose his plan to take out a high-interest $300 million loan to fund the demands of the Chicago Teachers Union have the same kind of views as the confederacy had when it came to freeing slaves:
— Nicki Neily (@nickineily) October 8, 2024
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…huh?
Let’s translate, for those who don’t speak stupid: “Give us everything you want, no matter how irresponsible or ridiculous, or you’re a racist bigot who hates black people.”
Actually, now that you say it out loud, it sounds pretty much like the entire leftist platform.