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To serve these migrants, city officials are currently operating 10 shelters and respite centers in neighborhoods across the city — including the Inn in Streeterville. Some of these shelters have been met with pushback because residents argue the resources dedicated to asylum-seekers should instead be poured into their own disinvested communities. But no neighborhood or section of the city is exclusively bearing the responsibility of providing a place to eat and sleep for asylum-seekers.
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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ILLEGAL immigrants who have invaded our country are welcomed and supported by fools.
When the full impact of this travesty is realized, it will be too late. Already stretched resources will fail citizens who are rightfully entitled to them.
Assuming our country survives and this madness is reversed, history will not look kindly on the reckless policies and ideological nonsense promoted by this administration.
However, if the madness prevails, history will see the Biden administration as transformative.
All depends on who “wins;” history is written by the victors.
Weep for the Republic.