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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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Actually, no, perpetuating their virtuous nature as “sanctuary cities” (of course, without legislation to establish such as a real thing) has embroiled their constituents in this cluster-f&ck.
Though, again, we see the consequences of pulling the lever on behalf of liberal/progressives who, thus far, have delivered pretty much what they said they would…
Rumor has it Johnson DELETED
No rumors please.
Pretty reliable source
Didn’t Sanctuary Cities precede the current urban immigration crisis? Don’t the easily accessed benefit programs in NYC and San Francisco draw “taker” groups to those places? Trying to lay off Chicago’s problems on the Governor of Texas omits many intervening steps in the blame game. It’s like saying that the pension problem results from failing to impose high enough taxes. These seem to be aspects of the notion that more money is a solution to problems … when we are told in the recent WSJ article that more money is a major cause of the problems. If the Woke and… Read more »
You’re exactly right! Great post!! Take it in a little bit at a time and don’t overwhelm yourself. I’ve been trying to explain to Wirepoints and other sites that they’re not going to accomplish much with intimidating and rapid fire presentations. To me, balanced reporting should also incorporate those on the front lines and organizations against these measures. Ray Lopez isn’t the only one against this.
Spam filters are getting a bit out of control Wirepoints.
What on earth triggered a flag?
Dunno.
Not really. Only a few a day get bumped into spam and held for approval, which we do as soon as somebody here sees them, which is usually within a few hours.
Chicago has been a sanctuary city since Harold Washington declared it so, because he likely viewed non-white illegal immigrants as an ally in his fight to ‘diversify’ the city in his quest to win the council wars. “Chicago’s days as a “sanctuary city” where undocumented people can access city services and live without fear of police harassment date back more than 30 years. In 1985, then-Mayor Harold Washington issued an executive order prohibiting city employees from enforcing federal immigration laws. He made the move to protest the federal government’s decision to question people seeking city services and conduct random searches… Read more »
Chicago has hundreds of thousands of illegals. Some how, a few extra thousand have created a crisis?
None of this make sense, but nothing in Chicago does these days.
Cry, cry, until good old Uncle Sam starts throwing millions of dollars to the city.
The crisis is that major cities have voluntarily assumed responsibility for these particular illegals. The overwhelming majority of illegals seamlessly disappear underground into ethnic neighborhood, exactly as the sanctuary laws intended.
These migrants do not have the ethnic neighborhoods to absorb them. The existing neighborhoods want nothing to do with these newcomers; they have nothing in common.
Previous groups came with support of uncles, cousins, or neighbors from their home villages. The groups coming now have none of that, and assume (apparently correctly) that US citizens will provide the support they need.
A major problem is that the Woke can have their cake and eat it too. You can’t track or find many of them AND there’s no way you can tax trouble-makers to the exclusion of others. So, the more they “identify” problems and stir-up foolish and costly solutions, the greater the taxpayer burden. By badgering and funding legislators, these Wokesters support and promote ill-considered legal and administrative “solutions.” In turn, those “solutions” create rights and expectations that NOT ONLY can’t easily be undone but lawyers interpret them creatively and file lawsuits, including class actions, that create further leaks in the… Read more »
Propaganda outlet for the regime puts Brandon on – What has America come to?
He’s not a mayor, he’s a Marxist Influencer.
He’s a really bad one too. He’s buried in The Black Panther and doesn’t understand what he’s reading or that it’s not applicable to his predicament. Back in the day, free speech absolutists used to let stuff like this fly and organizations like the ACLU even defended it. You really should think long and hard about why they defended it and why the misinformation / disinformation censorship approach is wrong.
Here’s a holiday centerfold from the December 68′ copy of The Black Panther. Cheers Brandon!
Notice at approximately 0:40 in the video he says that this is “clearly an international and federal crisis.”
Believe Texas is a still a state in the union (not international), and it is only acting consistent with de facto federal policy.
The chaos, here, he’s lamenting is a function of the sanctuary status that Chicago and the state of Illinois have openly boasted about.
Yet, now he blames Texas for the dysfunctional results. “Government responsibility/accountability” in this city has become little more than an oxymoron.
Ha ha ha. It is to laugh.
The real story is democrats creating chaos nationwide
Mayor BJ just repeating the CTU Marxist/Socialist script.
What a complete arse.
Your comment is the first comment on Wirepoints in 2024, moments after midnight. Love it!
Happy New Year, Debstor – always enjoy reading your perspective on WP.
This is so scripted. Johnson is reading off a teleprompter! Let me get this straight. They want the federal government to fund a state criminal enterprise, and for other states and illegal migrants to honor business hours from 8am – 5pm? This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. hahhahah