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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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Better yet. Declare DEFCON 1.
Must be less opportunity for the Latino Caucus to line their pockets if all of a sudden they’re anti “migrant”.
The correct phrase is CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. And isn’t Chicago a “Sanctuary City”? So….if you talk the talk you’d better walk the walk unless it’s all just pathetic Democrat virtue signaling.
Oh no! Dark-skinned foreigners in our city! We Democrats can’t allow that!!
The headline is ridiculous. The migrants are not from Texas. They have entered the US illegally from other countries.
Chicago Democrats Have Been Virtue Signaling About The City Being An Illegal Alien Sanctuary For Years — Now That They Are Being Sent Here From The Border — Mostly By The Biden Administration And Border State Democrats — Chicago Has Been Shipping Those Illegal To The Suburbs — But The City Council Still Wants To Create A Phony ‘State Of Emergency’ — As Cover For Off-The-Books, Slush-Fund-Shenanigans