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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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Crisis then Normalization. We’re almost there folks.
A policy of allowing anyone from anywhere for any reason entry to the country and prioritizing tax receipts for their benefit is beyond financially suicidal. It’s the act of a tyrannical government intent on subordinating the rights of its own citizens.
Biden allowing 12M illegal aliens in this country and then providing them with all of the social services, meals, housing and healthcare is going to go down in history as the single most damaging event in this country History. Even if a conservative gets into office and shuts the boarder…it stops the bleeding, but the damage is done. Financially, this is a disaster that we will be paying for for generations. This country cannot expand to accommodate 12M totally dependent people that quickly. The in coming traffic and spending just does not work. It isn’t rocket science.
Deport them all.
Just the cost to feed these jumpers is well over $50 per day per person. In an article here that I cannot find a new contract was given to feed the people. If it is $50 person that is $73,000 for a family of 4 per year. Where in the real world does a family of 4 spend $73K for food per year? The costs to provide basic needs are very highly inflated. A lot of well politically connected companies are making a bundle. Now add in free health care/schools and it adds up. None on these people pay rent/mortgages/auto… Read more »
I still don’t understand how 35K jumpers can bankrupt a city when there are hundreds of thousands of people on public assistance in Chicago alone getting every benefit known and the city was fine way before anyone was sent here. The costs for those receiving pensions and healthcare far exceed the total cost for the migrants. If a city of 2.7M cannot absorb the costs how can the small towns handle millions of people along the border?
The entire focus on just those 35K asylum seekers is a false narrative. We have about 600,000 illegals in Illinois alone, and 12.8 million nationally.
Most likely many of 600K that have been here for a while are working and have been for quite some time. Just look at all the places they are working at. Cleaning/landscaping/hotels/motels/grocers/restaurants and dozens more. Not sure on how many are on public aid but many are at my local post office sending money to families in other countries like Mexico so they have an income. To be fair many are hard working doing jobs that many would not do. I know some who are making a good living even though they are here illegally or lack identification. So those… Read more »
Read this: https://thehill.com/latino/407848-yale-mit-study-22-million-not-11-million-undocumented-immigrants-in-us/ I’ve read that that 11-12 million illegals number has been repeated for over two decades by everyone. It’s just an accepted fact with no real basis other than one estimate two decades ago they used as an estimate to estimate today’s illegal immigrants. No one bothered to update the figures. The ‘real’ estimate before Biden was somewhere near 22,000,000, and now with Biden’s surge, add another 10,000,000. So the real number of illegal immigrants is 32,000,000, dang near 10% of our entire country. We live in bubbles, and especially you on the north shore, we live in… Read more »
Yes, I remember that study. May be true but it is an outlier. I used this in a recent article:”Probably around 680,000 undocumented aliens are in Illinois, which is the estimate last June from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The Migration Policy Institute estimated Illinois’ unauthorized population at 425,000 five years ago. The Center for Immigration Studies estimated the illegal population nationally at 12.8 million in October. Illinois’ share of that, based on population, would be about 500,000″
Thanks for pointing out the sources, but I think they are all off by a factor of 100%. Those MIT Yale guys didn’t seem to have any agenda, and they said it was quite easy to determine the number.
I can feed 60 girl scouts at summer camp for $6 a day per person. Maybe bc I’m a non-profit with no guaranteed federal contract.
This is the same as the homeless issue. There is now such an industry around the crisis, with many people making well into six figures to “work on” the problem, that the incentive to fix anything is gone. Thus, a perpetual crisis.
Democrats doing what they do best : Step 1 – Create a crisis Step 2 – Grifting off the created crisis
OH GEE ……..LIKE WE COULDN’T FIGURE THAT ONE OUT ON OUR OWN…….BUT BE AWARE THE THE POLITICIANS WON’T SUFFER ONLY THE CITIZENS!!
Dem economics on full display. “ Inflation is good!” says Janet Yellen. Keep voting blue, idiots.
Senate Republicans and Dems negotiated an immigration law that mirrored the Republican demands. And Dems in the House stood ready to adopt it, but Trump wanted immigration to remain broken. So now Republicans own the problem. Please contact any Republican legislator with whom you have influence and urge them to change their stance and vote for immigration reform.
LOL, this is an old talking point….
Garbage. The plan included a path to citizenship for criminal illegal aliens. That’s an unacceptable non-starter. Deport them all.
AGREE
Democrats started the crises and allowed
“ Uncle Joe” to open the flood gates. Now the
Republicans are to blame, I don’t think so.
The “ usual gang of idiots “ got the story wrong. Hire more a lot more ICE agents
And round them up and ship them to hell out of here. I am tired of paying for illegal migration.
ME ALSO……..BUT JOE HAS MESSED THINGS UP SO BAD THESE ARE THEIR NEW VOTERS!!
The chaos at the border is the democrats strategy to change the demographics of our country; read voters. This is all intentional. People on welfare vote for democrats. We have generations of persons born in this country still on welfare. Again, all intentional by socialist democrats.
In a timely follow up check out today’s Red State Article “Flashback: Pritzker Denies Requesting Illegals to Come to Illinois, Contradicting Statement From 2021”. In case you are afraid to go to the article here are some choice JB quotes regarding his Executive Orders: “The new laws strengthen the TRUST Act and make Illinois the second state in the nation to require local officials to end partnerships with ICE, address hate crimes against immigrant communities, expand workplace protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, and create the Illinois Immigration Impact Task Force to ensure state programs and policies… Read more »
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NEED TO BAN PEOPLE THAT USE CAPS. SO MUCH FOR FREE SPEECH. JUST LIKE THE LIBERAL TYRANTS.
Welcome to Wirepoints Darold. You’ll find the commenters here don’t buy any of that CNN/MSNBC drivel. We’re actually educated about the issues and understand a lot of the cause and effect. While we certainly need some changes to our immigration system these problems were all caused by Biden reversing Trump’s border policies. No illegal alien should ever get citizenship and any children born here while they are here illegally shouldn’t get it either.
I actually support the children brought into the US here illegally getting citizenship as long as they have no criminal record and haven’t been on welfare and their parents are permanently blocked from citizenship but not blocked from work permits (as long as they have no criminal record and aren’t on welfare). Its not their fault that their parents ere criminals nor is is their fault that they become criminals due to their parents actions. More fundamentally the “birthright” citizenship needs to be ended. I think that’s from a post civil war constitutional amendment and will be difficult to change… Read more »
I agree with your conditions and maybe give them citizenship but no voting rights. These people will for the most part vote democrat and it’s an unfair way of the dem’s getting a majority. They want to make a difference they can still campaign for a candidate.
Send them all home, each and every one of them. They don’t belong here, they vote Democrat, round them up forcibly in front of their children and neighbors and send them home, and let it be a lesson to those who refuse to voluntarily self-deport. I hear the weather in Caracas is very nice this time of year.
100% agree. Empathy is a luxury for people and places that are humming along like a well-oiled machine, which the U.S. most certainly is not.
I think we should send all of them home. Even those born here whose parents came here illegally. Round them all up and send them home. Offer then $20,000 cash payment the moment they get on the plane to go back ‘home’. I don’t care if they don’t know their home country, or paid taxes, or anything like that. GO HOME.
BETTER READ YOUR HISTORY BUBBA
Darold, on your suggestion to reform immigration, I have contacted my Congressman and urged him to immediately start the process to deport all illegal aliens, AKA, criminals. Thank you for your excellent suggestion to reduce crime in this country and save the lives of American citizens.
STUPID COMMENT. TRY TO ADD VALUE MARK.
You’re a fool-of-a-man Darold, border security is National Security, that buck stops at the President’s desk.
Missing from your impassioned plea is the fact that the latest solution to the border crisis had twice the amount of relief for the border going to Ukraine baked in. Dems did that so either 1) they will keep funding a conflict most people in America don’t really care about or 2) the Republicans will turn it down and look like the bad guys. This game is getting really old and hopefully people are starting to see through it for what it is- a guaranteed “win-win “ for the progressive left agenda.
Please explain what needs to be fixed with the immigration system. The fact that there are millions of people entering illegally? That doesn’t point to anything wrong with the system, just something wrong with the entity running and enforcing the system. That’s all. The actual immigration rules, including those which cover asylum, are actually pretty straightforward. Unless the plan is just to continue importing the entire third world and all of its problems and backward values… then the rules are definitely bad.
Yes, those who complain the immigration system is broken almost always means “Those who entered illegally find it too difficult to get a green card.” The few remaining complainers just mean “I don’t want to pay the $3,000 in costs and attorney’s fees to bring my relatives over so they too can become public charges.” Believe me when I say this, a good friend of mine from high school became an immigration attorney, that’s all that this is.
Whoda thunk it? Everyone with a brain thought that eventually the massive unfunded pensions would bring down the stack of cards. Instead its a different but equally foolish idea. Democrats only know how to fail.
Folks, that’s the plan. When your elected officials have money for illegals the gig is up.