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When asked why he chose to impose a hiring freeze instead of a freeze on migrant spending, Mayor Brandon Johnson said he is not prioritizing migrants over public safety. “We spend $2 billion on community safety just for policing alone, so it is a priority. It’s the top priority that I have as mayor of the city of Chicago,” Johnson said.
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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Like most liberals they often profess the opposit of the reality of a situation that they created. In the instant Johnson has devoted a lot of funding, a finite resource, on the migrants as he welcomes them into the city. Meanwhile he has cut police and other public safety intiatives and will continue to do so as the Shot Spotter situation unfolds. I might add though that Johnson ran on a ticket of defunding the police so perhaps it is to be expected as once again the residents of Chicago get what they voted for.
I listen to this thing you elected as mayor and am amazed at how stupid your populous must be.
That some of the CTU who installed their shill into office are minimally smarter than the uneducated students they graduate is really not a surprise. About 30 seconds of hearing Gates address the media confirms that.
Mayor Conehead has to be one of the dumbest people on earth