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Among the complaints in the airport shelter: lack of access to health care, showers and laundry; inadequate bedding; and no support for placing children in schools. “We’re not doing well here,” one father who has been at O'Hare for two weeks, admitted. “We’ve got to leave to find help, see if we can find some food.”
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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They can always go back where they came from. Hell, I’ll even drive the bus!
Imagine getting off a plane a seeing this…..
Reviews at this site compare it to a Third – World airport, read on, an example below: https://www.airlinequality.com/airport-reviews/chicago-ohare-airport/ “Very dirty, rude staff” B Fara (United Kingdom) 17th May 2023 “We arrived from Munich airport, where it was very clean, organized and smooth process to get to our gate and board the plane. Arriving to Chicago O’Hare was a shock. Very dirty, rude staff who were yelling at everyone. It is not my imagination to say there were at least 5000 passenger entering this big area (under construction!) and there were only 5 officers checking passports. We all pretty much missed our connecting… Read more »
Import the third world, become the third world.
Offer the illegals a ticket back to their home country … they may take it.
That would save taxpayers a tidy sum.
DEPORT ‘em all!
Really? ORD is supposed to be a secure transportation facility — not a dumping ground for unvetted illegals and asylum fraudsters