Conehead Finds Money Tree
Rahm's Magical Money Tree must have bloomed this past week, and Conehead is taking full advantage:
Chicago will move ahead with its full $260 million supplemental pension payment, Mayor Brandon Johnson promised the city’s investors Thursday.
Johnson pledged to make the payment — aimed at chipping away at the city’s towering unfunded pension liabilities — during the Chicago Investor Conference. But as he argued City Hall “cannot simply cut our way out” of its fiscal woes, he did not reveal what new taxes or fees he will propose to balance the city’s next budget.
“Let me say that one more time: I want to reassure this audience that the city will make the second budgeted supplemental pension payment this year,” he told the investor crowd. “Because of property tax delays from the county, it’s a question of when, not if.”
The pledge adds another, and possibly final, chapter to the saga of the $260 million payment, which has become a key source of contention between Johnson and the City Council.
Got to love how Conehead claims he "cannot simply cut our way out," without ever making a serious effort to make cuts.
We'll just remind him where there are plenty of cuts that would save a hundred million tomorrow:
And that's from three years ago.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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Absolutely pathetic. Close 60% of these failures NOW.
Now find the list of how many employees are actually at each of these schools to serve 3%-18% of students! That’s where the real money is going!
Any one got video from O'Hare yesterday. Passengers were walking by a press conference at terminal 3 yesterday heckling Blow Job Johnson. They where calling him a looser a fraud and groups of people where booing him as he spoke.....
Well done, Chicago. Keep up the good work with those payments.
When you see it, believe it.
Any school with 0% of students reading at grade level needs to be closed and all employees fired.
And they have a full staff, the teachers love, teaching her not much to do takeoff when you want to do whatever you wanna do you got the school engineer or you have the lunch staff you have security you have custodians plus so many people drawing millions of dollars in salary by the way how are these kids doing on the test scores?🤣
Yes you can cut your way out out of debt. He simply does not have the huevos to do so.
No keeses for him!!!!
Anyone in the private sector with these underwhelming numbers would be fired for not cutting costs. Here's an idea, start closing and consolidating schools.
Highest paid teachers in the
country , with students can't read or do math. The democrat way.
Wbbm and a college professor say closing schools increases violence in the area. So in other words, its not happening.
Perhaps those ghetto kids could return to their local schools instead of flooding Taft High School on the Northwest side
Catholic schools were closed long time ago that didn’t have the minimal number of student admission. CPS is different story
If this doesn’t shoot down the teachers union argument about reducing classroom sizes because it will be easier for children to learn……
NOTHING DOES!!!
Think of savings if every school listed was closed , sold to be developed as housing. Money saved employees, building upkeep and profit from sale of property to developers.
That’s racist for u to even bring that up!!!
The CTU contract states that they have to maintain a full staff for each school which is a principal an assistant principal, school nurse, counselor, janitorial staff etc.
The last I heard was that it cost 18,500 per student a year but in the schools mentioned as much as 85,000 per student
Also How many students showed up everyday for the entire school day. How many are marked present that are absent? Incompetent leaders in Chicago and at CPS
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Money tree? Did someone say Money tree? I love the money tree. That tree has money on it. Trees have leaves, but Money trees have money on them. When autum comes, I will take out my rake and rake up all that money that falls on the ground.. So remember, everybody, to plant some dollar bills in the ground, and a few years later, you will have free money growing in your yard. Then you can thank me and send that money to me, care of, Kamala 4 President, of Somalia, 2030. And always remember, Trump is a big fat weenie, who stole my lunch money, when I was in 5th grade at Ding-Dong School….
That's the future CPD brass you be talkin bout
where's the outrage from black community ,conehead keeping these schools open, having 150 bodyguards, defunding police, hiring gang members as violence interrupters. Why not hire young men and women without criminal records as police officers.
Agreed. We should be owed interest on this money. A healthy Go Fuck Yourself to Mayor Mummbles and Mark Donawho?
Meanwhile cps public schools employee arrested:
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/08/violence-prevention-founder-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-grooming-girls.html
Tax and spend. Thats all they know how to do. They can only spend more money, not less. - Rush Limbaugh
I dont care who the candidates are in the mayors election. CPS budget and job proficiency should be the main topic of debate. Reading and comp is still falling. Some of those schools had Zero percent proficient in reading. Cross check that against the graduation rate and Ill bet it is 100 percent. CPD has been graduating kids for years that cant read or do math. And no one seems to care whenever CPS/CTU asks for a raise.
Mayor mental,midgets boss, Stacy Davis, Gates, the head crook in charge of the corrupt communist teachers union is not going to allow her handpick flunky consolidate or close any schools this would mean teachers losing their positions !
OFF TOPIC: Chicago has its 1st MASS shooting this weekend at 400 N Pine. Thanks Brandon and your useless violence reduction/gangbangers/parolee/political army. Stay safe this weekend boys and girls.
Teachers should be paid by percentage of their students proficiency in math and reading. Like 2% proficient gets 2% of wages.
Conehead said he was cutting 2,000 jobs, then he caved, and cut ZERO jobs, and will NOT close any schools! Short millions of dollars in their budget- waiting for fairy dust to be sprinkled on the money tree of raising property taxes again!
I agree that results matter and teachers are on the front lines, but I also have to say that the policy of social promotion eliminates any incentive for kids to learn in the early grades. They know that ignorant or not, they'll still get promoted and passed thru to high school. Mississippi (!) eliminated social promotions and if kids aren't proficient at grade level in 3rd grade, they're held back until they can read and do basic math at grade level. The state showed drastic improvements, largely from the demographic represented in most of the Chicago schools listed. Kids were more motivated to learn, and mama actually cracked down and made sure they did homework and attended classes.
And CPS ctu say they need another 1.9 Billion dollars this year to properly educate the students this school year. Fuck past and present teachers. 1.9 Billion dollars this? Kiss my ass. All were fools. Educate these dumb fucks. Fuck em.
LMAO Somebody won the Powerball in IL..
Can I sign up to be a security guard at one of those nearly empty schools?
Is that Conehead hood. All his body guards could have prevented this crime if they were in a beat care in 015
If banks are required to be closed due to poor investing, poor returns on their investments, or other frauds, why not schools? Taxpayers, as a whole, do not have a choice of becoming a participating victim, unlike individual bank customers.
Conehead is a dumb stupid fool. Right
The problem is that Chicago Public Schools have a requirement to be open, but not a requirement to succeed. They also do not have any requirement to report the truth to anybody. Sure, there’s wailing and gnashing of teeth when the truth comes out, but no changes are required after. Same with City Hall, except there are elections every few years. By then, a “new” candidate promises change, but has no requirement to change anything.
any bets all those 2 dozen students are gonna graduate with honors? huh? you feel me?
That's the genius of the corrupt CTU system. The media whores keep the lid on this corruption and never go there because they are complicit with the Socialists. The voters are just plain stupid and keep the corruption firmly in place. The CTU is a spreading cancer in this city, and no one cares. The voters pay with their lives, taxes and in every other way.
Out of those 20 schools, you could consolidate all these kids into one school on the westside, and one on the southside, and close 18 of them. Easily get rid of 1000-1500 people staffing those schools.
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Problem solved, plenty of easy answers. Conehead doesn’t know how to have a family budget. He’s way over his head.
Voice your displeasure with the buffoon mayor at all public speaking/pressers. Another looser Democrat Socialist whose neck is under the boot of the CTU. The corrupt media based on historic precedent, must continue their cover up of the incompetence of Conehead. Being in bed with a public figure who listens to voices in his head tells you all you need to know about "media truth". By their own words, deeds and actions the media routinely demonstrates its bias. They cannot be trusted.
Air Force Academy 6%.
Be honest the kids don’t get much attention at home. No help with homework, no breakfast, lunches made by mommy. It’s all provided by government.
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