"I am going to make a prediction. Pritzker will set up this bureaucracy and it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. No child will benefit from it. But the grifters will."
Not a tough prediction to make, unfortunately. The grift is actually the goal.
I read that they dropped 24B's with zero proof of any value add to the problem. If CA can get away with grifting that much, must give the crew in Chicago some pangs of jealousy. CA won't ever fix the homeless problem because, if they do, then the bureaucrat payday stops. Like Jeff points out, whatever Chicago spends on the new program, it won't help a thing. Single moms will take the money and run.
I think they should remove Lincoln from the plates as a sign of respect to the great man.
I’ve got one NC plate with the motto First in Freedom and another with In God We Trust. It’s a free choice. You can also get First in Flight in honor of the Wright Brothers.
Contrast IL with NC, where the State is using a budget surplus to clear a backlog of 75,000 students on the waitlist for Opportunity Scholarships to use at a school of their choice.
Well said Mr Carter! You might have added the stats on the percentage of Illinois school students who can't preform at grade level, courtesy of the "Teachers Union" aka Graft are Us!
The Left has lost their claim to even having 'good intentions'. They don't. They just use this money for vote-buying from GOTV people who have some sham social service provider. I will hazard a guess that there is some Federal matching grant available if the State spends this, so we get hit twice to pay the same field organizers for the Dems.
For more than 30 years I have lobbied politicians to tie public aid into completion of simple parenting and self-sufficiency courses offered by member banks of the Federal Reserve free of charge.
Back in the day those classes would have included balancing checkbooks, writing budgets, proper parenting and taking care of children, Elementary math and reading, writing resumes and job seeking, personal hygiene and personal health and other areas of life that have shown where when improvements are made, people's lot in life improves dramatically. For the first decade and a half I could not get almost any politician to even consider proposing anything like that, for fear of being labeled racist and that is a scathing condemnation of the political and mainstream media mindset.
When you ignore a problem, it doesn't go away; it gets worse every single time.
Today only a handful of politicians that I discuss that with are open to proposing something like that. I would be surprised if before I die a single one of them ever introduces a bill to tie public benefits into completing simple coursework that would increase benefits by just a few bucks a month as each of the parents completes the coursework.
There were many other courses I proposed and some politicians were open to it.
Sen. Paul Simon, to his credit, was one of the guys, who was talked out of it by his advisors, that was gung-ho and he was one of the few.
There has been some behind the scenes talk of a Kamala Harris and JB Pritzker team running for the White House to replace Joe Biden and I literally laughed out loud at that. "Governor Toilets" would be blown out of the water by the truth coming out.
If JFK and RFK were alive today, they would be aghast at the state of the Democratic party today.
The concept of helping people to help themselves, instead of just throwing money at something without follow-through and incentivization to improve self, will work much better than the current policy of just throwing money at people, which has become frustrating and infuriating because it has been an abysmal failure.
I still have the sneaking suspicion that LLM/AI will upend primary education in this country. What do you need to teach the three "r's"? Infinite patience and some teaching paradigms and possibly the ability to see where the child is looking.
Could be a titanic struggle in the near future . . . sorry. This is off topic. I'll post anyway.
"I am going to make a prediction. Pritzker will set up this bureaucracy and it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. No child will benefit from it. But the grifters will."
Not a tough prediction to make, unfortunately. The grift is actually the goal.
Government, government spending is just a jobs program for a special-interest voting constituency (Democrats).
Step 1--identify, create a client group.
Step 2--define a spending program for the purported benefit of the client.
Step 3--Hire government employees who benefit from the paycheck funded by spending.
Step 4--Repeat as necessary.
He's learning from Gavin Newsome. Gavin's created a $9 billion cottage industry out of California's homelessness problem.
I read that they dropped 24B's with zero proof of any value add to the problem. If CA can get away with grifting that much, must give the crew in Chicago some pangs of jealousy. CA won't ever fix the homeless problem because, if they do, then the bureaucrat payday stops. Like Jeff points out, whatever Chicago spends on the new program, it won't help a thing. Single moms will take the money and run.
I don't think it will even get to single mom's. It will go to unions and the bureaucrats.
We're such a mess.
The Grifter State should be on our license plates.
My NC license plates came in an envelope clearly marked on the front side with “Produced by the NC Dept. of Corrections”. Gotta love that!
Ha! If only! We keep letting ours out before they are "corrected" and I hope we're outta here before the plates have rainbows on them.
I think they should remove Lincoln from the plates as a sign of respect to the great man.
I’ve got one NC plate with the motto First in Freedom and another with In God We Trust. It’s a free choice. You can also get First in Flight in honor of the Wright Brothers.
Don't Tread on Me license plate holder on my car...
Perfect. They don’t yet have a good one here. Virginia’s looks great.
The best NC logo vanity plate of all time is “I’d Rather Be Shaggin’”.
It’s not what you think LOL.
I googled it, lol. I love local cultural stuff like that!
Contrast IL with NC, where the State is using a budget surplus to clear a backlog of 75,000 students on the waitlist for Opportunity Scholarships to use at a school of their choice.
Well said Mr Carter! You might have added the stats on the percentage of Illinois school students who can't preform at grade level, courtesy of the "Teachers Union" aka Graft are Us!
The Left has lost their claim to even having 'good intentions'. They don't. They just use this money for vote-buying from GOTV people who have some sham social service provider. I will hazard a guess that there is some Federal matching grant available if the State spends this, so we get hit twice to pay the same field organizers for the Dems.
Head Start anyone? They have wrang out all the graft from that so have to start another one.
HA, great point.
Love your Chicago insight! From a former westsider (Austin).
For more than 30 years I have lobbied politicians to tie public aid into completion of simple parenting and self-sufficiency courses offered by member banks of the Federal Reserve free of charge.
Back in the day those classes would have included balancing checkbooks, writing budgets, proper parenting and taking care of children, Elementary math and reading, writing resumes and job seeking, personal hygiene and personal health and other areas of life that have shown where when improvements are made, people's lot in life improves dramatically. For the first decade and a half I could not get almost any politician to even consider proposing anything like that, for fear of being labeled racist and that is a scathing condemnation of the political and mainstream media mindset.
When you ignore a problem, it doesn't go away; it gets worse every single time.
Today only a handful of politicians that I discuss that with are open to proposing something like that. I would be surprised if before I die a single one of them ever introduces a bill to tie public benefits into completing simple coursework that would increase benefits by just a few bucks a month as each of the parents completes the coursework.
There were many other courses I proposed and some politicians were open to it.
Sen. Paul Simon, to his credit, was one of the guys, who was talked out of it by his advisors, that was gung-ho and he was one of the few.
There has been some behind the scenes talk of a Kamala Harris and JB Pritzker team running for the White House to replace Joe Biden and I literally laughed out loud at that. "Governor Toilets" would be blown out of the water by the truth coming out.
If JFK and RFK were alive today, they would be aghast at the state of the Democratic party today.
The concept of helping people to help themselves, instead of just throwing money at something without follow-through and incentivization to improve self, will work much better than the current policy of just throwing money at people, which has become frustrating and infuriating because it has been an abysmal failure.
I still have the sneaking suspicion that LLM/AI will upend primary education in this country. What do you need to teach the three "r's"? Infinite patience and some teaching paradigms and possibly the ability to see where the child is looking.
Could be a titanic struggle in the near future . . . sorry. This is off topic. I'll post anyway.
In case you haven't seen it...proposal for a Grain Reserve, analogous to the Strategic Petroleum Review:
https://x.com/MaxJerneck/status/1805729551605284906