Here’s the guy and what they say about him (and in effect the whole WJU situation).
There’s a whole background on this here. If you are interested.
Suffice it to say, this looks like a happy ending to a very messy story.
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Am sorting through this latest from Wheeling, will have more later. Meanwhile, interest is obvious and widespread, to judge by views of this and other Wheeling Jesuit items. Later.
At the March 1 forum at the Carleton Hotel, village board presidential candidate Anan Abu-Taleb dropped info about Oak Park’s finances that deserved a response from candidate John Hedges. But the response was weak.
The village is $100 million in debt, said Abu-Taleb, and has a meager 58% funded of its $126 million in pension obligations, including fire and police pensions, whose shortfall last year rose from $105 million to $106 million.
Pension funds had negative balances in seven of the last 11 years, for what he called a structural deficit. Village staff tells him the village is planning on its funds earning an unrealistic 8% annually, he said.
Hedges, who has been a village trustee since 2007, implicitly conceded the accuracy of the figures, which are backed up aggressively by a Better Government Assn. report, but surprisingly dismissed them. “The big issue is the property tax,” he said…
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Web site that does not look like a holy card.
In fact, looks very good. Congrats to them.
“The more one considers the matter,
the clearer it becomes that redistribution
is in effect far less a redistribution of free income
from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined,
than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.” by: Bertrand de Jouvenel
(1903-1987)
Source: The Ethics of Redistribution [1952] (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1990), p. 72.
Yes. How many social-betterment plans do just this?
Blithe Spirit 