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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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I oppose massive illegal immigration.
I also oppose massive numbers of legal immigrants coming into the country as it floods the labor market and dilutes the culture.
When immigrants come in smaller numbers it forces them to assimilate into the existing American culture as opposed to living in ethnic enclaves where they simply maintain their culture from their previous country.
Immigration needs to be tightly limited to people with skills that we need. In fact, I would be fine with completely shutting off immigration altogether.
Sort of like Chicago relocating the Cabrini Green mess to other areas like Rockford. Rockford hasn’t recovered and probably never will.
This is a ploy to turn red parts of the state more blue. Never let a crisis go to waste!
No, Chicago’s (and Martha’s Vineyard, NYC’s, DC’s) ethnic cleansing of dark-skinned foreigners has nothing to do with their racism, xenophobia and white supremacy.
How progressive of these Dems. Cause a new problem to arise then offload it somewhere else.
Chicago Democrat Hypocrite Frauds Wrote Virtue Signal Checks That Their Asses Can’t Cash — Now They Want To Deport Illegals Downstate