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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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After watching that video footage of the NYPD officers being attacked on the street by these illegal immigrants, then have them arrested and released after 3 hours without bail (after assaulting a POLICE OFFICER) …then flipping off and laughing at the cameras…brothers and sisters…this needs to end. That image is the poster child for this failure of our government to protect the people of this country. These illegal people do not want asylum they should be in an asylum. They don’t want to be US Citizens and pledge allegiance to the this Country and make it their home, they want… Read more »
This is what DeSantis is doing. Sending 1,000 National Guard troops from Florida to the border.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/inflection-point-gov-ron-desantis-173633625.html
They should be patrolling the Loop. Maybe the Israelis can send over a few bucks to help Chicagoans pay for private security.
DEMOCRATS ALWAYS MAKE THESE GREAT DECISIONS…….LOL…..THEIR DECISIONS ARE MOSTELY REALLY DUMB
Look no further than Evanston, where consideration to letting the illegals vote, to understand why the Democrats are seemingly not concerned with the USA’s southern border. It doesn;t get any more descriptive than that.
I was in Evanston a few weeks ago, for the first time in several years, and it is a dystopian freakshow. I imagine it’s not all that different from living in North Korea from the cult perspective. First of all, it seemed like 1/3rd of the businesses in downtown looked shuttered with brown paper covering the windows and for lease signs everywhere. The remaining businesses have LBTGQ stuff everywhere, on the doors, inside the stores, on the street. The handful of protestant churches just outside of downtown look like billboards, displaying every known left-wing political virtue signal from BLM to… Read more »
The irony is that Evanston residents wouldn’t much appreciate living among the third world residents with third world values if they could vote in local elections. They might not vote the way they want. And from a day to day Quality of Life perspective, things in Evanston would be much worse. All those fancy coffee shops would be replaced with tax cheating taquerias employing illegal immigrants; and all those fancy restaurants would become mexican ice cream parlors. Evanston really is only a hop, skip and step away from turning into Cicero if they’re not careful.
Well it’s kind of a southern border of a different country but in a different continent and on the same planet.
Sorry Sen. Craig Wilcox, I know you’re a Republican, but that’s some of the stupidest stuff I’ve ever heard in my life. The middle east has been on fire since the Judeans under Daniel attacked the Amonites during the Bronze Age and hasn’t slowed down since. To say that our place in the world depends on the middle east is complete nonsense.
What I inferred was that our standing in the world (or the perception of our power) depends on our responses to the increasingly provocative Iranian proxy attacks, not that what happens overall in the mid east determines our power. Weak response begets perception we are weak and will promote additional action (China on Taiwan, China into South America, Russia against NATO, etc…). A strong response will tend to tamp down the actions of others…that same philosophy applies to our southern border too. No/weak response encourages more migrants to try and cross, strong response tends to limit/deter attempts to come illegally.… Read more »