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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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Woah. For over a decade Chicago and Cook County have proudly proclaimed themselves as “Sanctuary Cities and Counties”. They passed perverted laws preventing Chicago police from cooperating with ICE so……step up. And pay up. Unless Chicago and Cook County only virtue signal when they think that someone else is paying the bill. It’s easy to be generous when it doesn’t cost you anything.
And now Pritzker and Democrats want a bailout for their illegal behavior.
What would be the legal basis or rational a sanctuary city like Chicago would receive federal aid vrs a non-sanctuary city? Chicago has NO laws for providing “right to shelter” or any other services for “new arrival” migrants or any of the other countless 100s of thousands of undocumented immigrants already here? Where’s Kwame??
Kwame is busy trying to ensure other states protect the rights of transgenders.
maybe there’s some trans migrants he can file lawsuits for?
According to the 14th amendment interstate travel is a fundamental right but it pertains to citizens. So shipping illegal jumpers from one state via others states to get to say Chicago seems to be illegal. How does being a sanctuary city like Chicago legally take in people who came by bus from another state? Does the 14th amendment trump sanctuary status if they crossed state borders illegally? Is it legal if they have flown in directly from their country to a sanctuary city to claim asylum? It seems if they arrive in Texas and have filled out all the asylum… Read more »
Where does the 14th amendment grant interstate travel only to citizens? Also, nobody is “shipping” illegals any more than someone is “shipping” someone traveling on vacation. Free bus, train, and plane rides are being offered and these people are taking advantage of them. Keep in mind, just because a “fundamental right” isn’t outlined in the constitution it doesn’t mean that activity is necessary illegal. Even if you tried to pass such a law it would face constitutional issues. The last sentence of the 14th amendment, section 1. “nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the… Read more »
It clearly states citizens are free to travel. Visitors to this country need a green card or passport to travel around the country but only for a specified time period. How many getting off the buses with passports in hand? As for being shipped they are being bussed or transplanted. I avoided saying they are cargo since that denotes they are similar to baggage since they are still humans so I give them some respect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_United_States_law
Can you travel to Europe or any other country with a passport even if someone provides free transportation?
US law allows asylum seekers to freely move to other states. Nothing in the 14th amendment states otherwise.
If you say they can travel how can jurisdictions put up signs not to drop off migrants in their towns? Freedom of travel is being restricted by many towns and more to come. Buses can travel anywhere in the U.S. so why are they being diverted?
https://abc7chicago.com/migrants-in-chicago-texas-elburn-suburbs/14234784/
I’m not saying it but rather the law states it. US Immigration and Customs Services even has an online change of address form for those that move. Nothing in the 14th amendment restricts non-citizens from moving freely within the US. From your own article you just posted. “Grundy County leaders made a plan over the weekend to encourage buses to move on if they stop there, or, if migrants are abandoned, they will get them to Joliet and put them on trains to transfer them to sanctuary cities.” They are encouraging but these migrants are free to move about the… Read more »
Regardless this a huge problem and just getting bigger. The costs seem to be exaggerated so the local communities hopefully can get reimbursed from the Feds down the road maybe.
There’s no need to get into esoteric arguments over whether the 14th Amendment applies to non-citizens’ right to the freedom of travel. There are dozens of statutes prohibiting what is going on, but no one is enforcing them. There’s wholesale human trafficking of illegal immigrants going on at the border, and Abbott is doing it too. And as is the federal government. Everyone is doing it and no one is doing anything about it. https://www.dhs.gov/human-trafficking-laws-regulations I believe that the public arrests of several NGO CEOs facilitating the illegal migrations would likely put a swift end to this. Jail w/o bail… Read more »
Catholic charities, bingo .
Perhaps there should be a class-action lawsuit against City of Chicago & Mayor Johnson for squandering public funds on illegal immigrants. There is no “law”, nor moral obligation, that requires City of Chicago to house, feed, nor provide medical treatment and transportation for unsponsored economic migrants illegally entering US at Biden’s open borders. BJ should follow Nantucket’s example, which gave its 100+ migrants a meal, some clothes, and promptly shipped them out, gone within 24 hours – bye, bye – despite its residents’ touted liberal “values”. Prior lawful immigrants to US were sponsored by a documented benefactor, whether relative or… Read more »
The Biden Administration doesn’t enforce the public ward I-864 support affidavit. They don’t care.
This will not help. Our so called leaders are less than worthless.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-mexico-keep-border-crossings-133447779.html
Chicago Mayor Begs and Pleads for Help With Illegal Immigration Crisis in Schadenfreude Overload – RedState
Schadenfreude is the best word in the German language. It means, “malicious glee at someone else’s misfortune.
Only the Black and Latin communities can save Chicago now from the marxist Democrats and their union masters. Otherwise, the exodus will grow.
The least costly solution is DEPORTATION, just give that a try.
That’s why Democrats like Pritzker are feverishly working to get ‘work permits’ issued – They know mass deportations are coming in 2025
Love watching these Dem city mayors struggle with their sanctuary city stupidity.
Also love seeing Chicago southsiders pushing back on Dems putting immigrant
camps in their neighborhoods.
This could really end up blowing up in Dems faces in 2024.
That brings a big smile to my face!!
Next step will be to vote for ‘the other guy’ in the primary, to the extent the harvesters don’t already have marching orders how to fill in the ballots.
Are you ever a glass half full guy?
I was until November 3, 2020.
You were glass half full guy in November 2022 as well. You went on and on about how Bailey had a real chance. It was Kool Aid level positivity.
The predicted red wave didn’t materialize into electoral wins. Republicans had millions of more votes than Democrats nationally but it translated into zero gains in Illinois. I wouldn’t call that Kool-Aid level positivity. And since I’m still alive, I obviously didn’t drink the Kool-Aid either.
I believe the red wave never materialized when the Supreme Court made the ruling on abortion. Women in many areas around the country voted against republicans especially in states where they banned fully or partially for the procedure. A few thousand here and there changed the outcome. Had the High Court made their decision after the election it would have turned out differently.
Sorry to link to NYT Slime, but I’ll just copy and paste a little of the headline and article: How Republicans Lost Despite Winning the Popular Vote https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/upshot/2022-republicans-midterms-analysis.html “Here’s a figure about the 2022 midterm elections that might surprise you: Republicans won the national House popular vote by three percentage points — 51 percent to 48 percent. They still won by two points after adjusting for races in which only one major party was on the ballot. Yes, that’s right: Republicans won the popular vote by a clear if modest margin, even as Democrats gained seats in the Senate and… Read more »
Years ago there was a saying that went something like “Downstate can not elect a Governor but it can keep someone from being elected Governor.” I thought of that when Baily was running. Elections are about votes and Chicagoland has the votes so downstate votes would only matter if two Chicagoland types were running the way I see it.
And now JB Pritzer has a machine, at upwards of $10 a ballot, to harvest 800,000 straight ticket Democrat ballots over and above what any other gubernatorial candidate in the state’s history has received. That’s really what it is. Bailey performed as expected. Not terrible, Republicans mostly showed up. But 800,000 more straight ticket Democrat ballots also showed up again too, voters/ballots that did not exist in any mid-term election in Illinois’s history, prior to JB’s first election in 2018. No one seems to care or even recognize this completely insane and unusually fact that 800,000 more straight ticket Democrat… Read more »
A good comment from a ZeroHedge user. “Obama traveled in the same circles as Cloward and Piven. There is little question that this is part of a plan to overwhelm all state and local services so they will beg for federalization. It all adds up; the war on police to boost crime, everything. In theory, State and local governments will beg for federal assistance; ‘A domestic security force as powerful and well funded (as our military.) I’m reminded of the DC City Council wanting the National Guard to take over policing in DC, right after they defunded the police and… Read more »
Just more confirmation of how vital it is to exercise your 2nd amendment rights.
Seems that may be why Pritzker, Chris Welch and our state Supreme Court want to restrict our natural rights to own guns and ammo. So we will be dependent on them in a time of crisis. To heck with that. We already know there is only a ~50% chance that anyone responds to your call to 911. Americans prepare accordingly.
Zero Hedge will rot your brain. It’s the most depressing and demoralizing collection of nihilists on the entire internet. Cloward and Piven didn’t invent anything…. this is yet another goofy Zero Hedge myth, designed to pacify readers and keep them focused on some sensational plot instead of getting off their asses and doing something. Strategists have been thinking up ways to overthrow states since the beginning of time!
There’s going to be more ah-ha moments next week and the week after that. Zero Hedge has a never ending collection of dots to connect in some grand scheme. Zero Hedge will never tell you to protest, and if they do, they’ll make sure you’re confident it won’t do much. Zero Hedge will never espouse the benefits of teamwork. Most importantly, Zero Hedge will never tell you where you can go or what you can do to make a difference.
This mayor is grossly toxic and incompetent. Additionally, he shows a lack of ability to think things through to their likely conclusion. If the city has received 30K illegals, of the roughly 10 million illegals that have snuck over the border, that means Chicago should get 0.3% as its fair share of the “help”. Would only pay for one of his corrupt contracts. The city is small potatoes in this fight, yet whines like a pig stuck in a fence. If he cannot handle his small potatoes, he should whining to Biden to secure the damn border immediately.
In office for only seven months, and already pleading for a federal bailout?
Hard to match that kind of leadership.
It is great leadership but it’s demonstrated by Gov Abbott. I view it as it only took Abbott 7 month to bring the new progressive mayor of Chicago to his knees. The country needs more leadership like Gov Abbott. He hasn’t spent his time with rhetoric and has instead painted the opposition into a corner where they are only left to fight themselves. Absolutely brilliant. We need more leadership like this.
Abbot needs to close the border.
DaveHardy needs to close the border. You both have the same legal authority to make that happen. Now make that happen Dave.
No amount of positive thinking or rah rah attitude will make that happen Dave. Instead Abbott is doing what he is legally allowed to do. He is helping out his own state while putting the hypocrisy of the left on full display.
I’d like to see Abbot start shipping the illegals to more blue states, or districts where all the socialists are, like the squad’s.
Biden just went to the USVI on the taxpayers dime for yet another vacation.
CTU/Brandon calls for $15 bil in federal aid for migrants? Would the vast majority of aid go to Texas, Arizona, etc to secure the border one would hope? And sanctuary cities (Chicago, nyc, denver, etc) would get $fed$ aid based on what? Chicago has no laws stating it has to provide the services (shelter,
food, medical) they’re providing to new arrival migrants, Chicago’s just volunteering to provide all these services. Not to mention all the 100s of thousands undocumented immigrants already here