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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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JB, Taxwinkle and BJ are desperate to keep their Criminal Illegal Aliens in order to either make them Democrat voting citizens or as census count stooges and steal congressional representation from Red States. Id be OK with a compromise of birthright citizenship eliminated in exchange for the Criminal Illegal Aliens counting for 3/5 of a person in the census. That’s a decent compromise that will result in a half dozen or so additional Republican congressmen.
This idiot , Mayor Conehead, is calling for Chicagoans to resist and to rise up against ICE raids.
He must be oblivious to the fact that even his own constituents want the illegals gone. So good luck with your calls for action. Only the paid AntiFa and lunatic Leftists agitators will be out on the streets. Conehead is a complete waste of space .
Surprise, surprise: the Trib article quotes the Mayor and his supporters, with no hint of an opposing view. “[T]he city’s leaders so far are not flinching when it comes being forced into cooperation with federal authorities taking part in a crackdown.” The city — and the state, as well — are part of the country, and the US has control over inherently international issues, like control of our country’s borders. The article even refers to: “Teen takeovers” — impromptu gatherings of young people, mostly from the South and West sides, that sometimes end in gunfire “Impromptu” understates the planning and… Read more »
That’s why I canceled my subscription to the Trib. Too biased and soft soaping the crime in the city
Here it is – Pure Marxism being run from Chicago:
“The suspect has been identified as Alejandro Orellana, an alleged member of the Brown Berets, a radical Chicano nationalist paramilitary organization with ties to far-left revolutionary groups.
The group, long known for its anti-police rhetoric and militant activism, has reportedly embedded operatives in several major U.S. cities.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/developing-fbi-arrests-driver-who-went-viral-delivering/
Noem and Homan and Bondi need to ferret this Marxist group out.
Homie is extremely lucky that the CHI city charter has no provision for recalling an incompetent idiot of a mayor.
I truly believe he thinks he is the reincarnation of MLK. Not even close .
More like the infamous dress taken to the cleaners…
He is far closer to Homie the Clown than LMK!