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There is a humanitarian crisis developing in Chicago. As temperatures drop into the 40s, thousands of migrants have been unable to find room indoors to sleep and are forced to camp outside — sometimes with no tents and no blankets. Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson had been promising “winterized” tents to shelter the thousands of migrants who are sleeping in police stations and makeshift shelters around the city. So far, nothing. And time is running out.
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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These immigrants are dumb as rocks and practically incapable of helping themselves. There’s going to be frozen migrants and dead, frozen children lining the thoroughfares of Chicago come December. It’s going to be difficult for Democrats to hide.
It is incredible how successful the Democrats are at duping poor and not well educated people. We all know for decades how the Dems have fooled Black, Hispanics and so many other folks by promising the world and delivering only poverty, bad schools, unsafe neighborhoods, crummy public transportation, etc. Now they have a new crowd to bamboozle– illegal aliens. Promise the world. Come to Sanctuary city Chicago. We love you all and will take good care of you. Yeah, right. Now all those folks from warm countries are going to find out how cold the weather is here, and how… Read more »
for the millionth time…..the cities got tons of empty space at closed or only fractionally used CPS schools ready to go with minimal fix-up in are “systemically dis-invested” (Black) communities to house migrants…but no pol will go there? It’s a manufactured “humanitarian catastrophe” for who?
Excellent news…!!! Maybe this ‘Humanitarian Catastrophe’ will deter some illegals from squatting here…