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There is something happening in Chicago, as residents of the Windy City appear to be waking up to the costs of illegal immigration.
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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The reality is setting in – Hold the Black population effectively in check with unlimited abortion, and violent Black on Black crime, while surging the Hispanic population. It’s happening. Johnson may be the end of the line.
Pritzker’s Promise To Pay For Illegal Alien Health Care Is Bankrupting Illinois, So Now He Is Forced To Break Yet Another Promise – Center Square
Hmm, cause and effect really doesn’t appear on a Progs radar screen.
They may be finding out, but in the next election they’ll vote straight blue or they won’t vote at all.
The phrase ‘The chickens come home to roost’ is very appropriate here…
What’s the problem? Aren’t Blue state voters loving the policies their “leaders” have given them?