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Three volunteers said the shelter’s city-contracted security guards threatened and harassed them and told them to leave the premises before calling police as the volunteers passed out food to the migrants, who told them they’d only been served “bread and apples” inside the shelter. As more asylum-seekers came out for food, staff at the shelter began taking photos of the women’s license plates, one volunteer said.
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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Its nice that these people were passing things out, but would have been nicer if they actually asked for permission to do so if they planned on doing this on the organizations premises
Somebody really should look into Favorite Staffing and see who they are and what kind of political contributions they have made. If all these migrants have Obama phones they could video and show the world how bad it is. I suspect it’s really bad, based on the fact they won’t let outsiders in.
“This is our grift”! “We don’t need no do-gooders around here, I’m calling the police”!
Hey, we’re the Good Old Boys…..
Oops, Good Ole Boys….