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The city of Chicago says up to 250 migrants could stay there for up to two years. Ald. Ray Lopez wrote on Twitter, "it looks like an illegal conversion on steroids."
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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My family came through the front door of Ellis Island and didn’t get this coddling. Quite the reverse. They didn’t speak the language and had no skills, but they were willing to get to work, if they could find an employer who would hire them.
These people crossed the border illegally, thanks to Brandon’s idiotic border policies, and they expect to be housed and fed on the taxpayer dime.
If they stay for two years, they’re never leaving.
Face it, they’re never leaving. They’re permanent ‘guests’ of the taxpayers.