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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the continuing Gotion controversy in Manteno and the billions in subsidies being spent on green projects nationwide, the growing cost of the migrant crisis in Chicago, and more.
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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.
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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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ILLINOIS IS A SANCTUARY STATE. Elections have consequences. How’s that working out for you Pritzker voters? I know it sucks for those of us who didn’t vote for Pritzker. We are collateral damage.
When the money runs out from Covid dollars the stuff will really hit the fan. There are no additional federal dollars coming to prop up the projects that were started, or worse, to keep hundreds of public entities funded at current levels. It won’t happen all at once, but over the next 12 to 18 months it is going to happen. The federal Covid dollars were funded in a zero interest rate environment, and that simply doesn’t exist anymore. As new treasuries have to be issued to fund the government, the percentage of the federal government annual budget eaten by… Read more »
Chaos is the objective. See the “Cloward-Piven Strategy”.
And the grift skimmed from “ social programs “ makes for a nice little “ side hustle “.