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In Elgin, which was awarded $1.27 million, Mayor David Kaptain said there has been a steady “trickle” of migrants from Venezuela and elsewhere who are helped by local social service agencies. “It got to the point where it’s a financial burden,” he said. “They’re running short of food, they need more money. That’s why the grant was applied for. I’ve been getting calls from people concerned you’re going to bring busloads of immigrants here. That’s not what’s happening here.”
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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Please observe that media photographs always show women and children as the subject “recently-arriving migrants”. And yet actual stats show that migrants are overwhelming young adult males of military age. Crickets from media, local and national coverage.
Moving money from one pocket to another until the pocket with the largest hole in it facilitates the cascade of public resources to places where it won’t be seen again or used for any benefit except paying the highly-skilled, multi-degreed and well-compensated public servants and their minions who are needed to push the wheelbarrows.
Don’t feed them, don’t house them. Winter is coming, they will leave.
The mayor of Elgin seems to not realize he is enticing more illegals to come there. What happens when the $1.27M runs out?
Exactly. That Mayor sealed the deal when he took that 1.27 million. It will, in true Illinois political style, become a gift that keeps on giving.
You mean the gift that keeps on TAKING.
Excuse me, grift not gift!
No matter what happens, none of these people will ever leave our country.
They are the new ‘victim class.’
We’re not suddenly going to do-or-change ‘something’ such that we’re putting people who don’t want to leave on planes and trains-n-busses and forcing them to go somewhere over the border.
Thousands more cross the border every day. They’ll not be deported either – they’ll be “processed and released”.
Better start figuring out how to pay for it all, I suppose….