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"In fact, we might well see the most direct confrontation between federal and state power since the 1963 crisis when President John F. Kennedy ‘s deputy attorney general, Nicholas Katzenbach, challenged Gov. George Wallace over desegregating the University of Alabama."
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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Colorado, a former swing state, is now solidly Blue. Foreign immigration, both legal and illegal, as well as the hippie environmental crowd has sealed it’s fate.
A reminder to the Blue States, Both Eisenhower and JFK federalized National Guard troops in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama. Blue State Governors would like us to forget that- when it suits THEIR purposes.
Here’s an article from Moneywise. JB is on the cover.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/over-half-us-states-bleeding-114400264.html
The governor is an ongoing embarrassment – why change now?
Homan has a job to do – clean up the Biden/Harris/Obama border mess. Hope he hits the ground running and reverses the damage.
And while they’re at it, REPEAL the 14th amendment and bring an end to anchor babies. Its benefit to the country ended more than 100 years ago.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Not necessary to repeal 14th Amendment due to the ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof’. Those persons born… Read more »
Holman said he has no problem arresting lawless Democrats. Long overdue.
Le Largesse is going to find himself in federal prison…
With Trump /Republicans now in complete control of the ‘fed trifecta” and winning the popular vote they’re in a historic position to put the big BLUE bankrupt to the public sec unions states in a world of hurt and rescue it’s citizenry (me) either thru fed legislation, the courts or simply not funding fed programs (per Peter Thiel– youtube @ min1:20:00, https://youtu.be/wwJV_NuN43Y?si=6yK2AKwoPyL1YWnp). Trump currently has the public on his side to do something. His pick for Labor Secretary, Chavez-DeRemer, doesn’t give one much hope that Trump/ Republicans see the possibility for HUGE populist win that could possibly flip blue states… Read more »