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"This is not progress, it's decline, and on an epically confused scale. If the wide sweep of the past century or so made anything clear, it's that governments at all levels really don't need to be involved in the provision of basic goods and services, whether we're talking about food, airlines, utilities, communications, garbage hauling, health care, taxis, or even a post office (when, in the internet age, is the last time you actually visited that museum of dead letters?). We don't even need the government to get into space anymore! Yet Chicago's government needs to get in the grocery biz?"
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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Mayor BJ is beholden to the socialist Chicago Teachers Union!!
Johnson Doesn’t Have The Management Skills To Manage A Lemonade Stand — And Now He Wants To Operate A City Owned Grocery Store
That pic of BJ makes him look a bit like Lenin!
Or even like that old commie East German goat, Walter Ulbricht, who under his leadership the Berlin Wall was built, lol… he was one of Stalin’s “handmaidens” so to speak…