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Posturing as a “sanctuary city” used to be fun when it meant resisting Donald Trump, but now the migrant crisis is everywhere. “We simply have no more shelters, spaces, or resources,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says in a letter Sunday to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. “Though I am sympathetic to the significant challenges that border cities face, this situation is completely untenable.”
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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Hmmmm….seems the biggest dilemma for your city typical virtue signalling/ $equity hustling$ crowd going forward is how do you swap out your front yard BLM sign for a ILM sign without offending anyone? After all, being a fashionable lib-tard poser is what’s important. Who care what it costs, correct?
If I were Abbott, I would ask Lightfoot/Preckwinkle/Pritzker to share their sanctuary handbook with Texas to offer advice on how to best care for and manage a surge in unplanned migrants. Chicago and Cook County should be experts by now.
Or maybe request Chicago’s new mayor charter buses to the Texas/Mexico border in a constant back-and-forth to Chicago. That way, Chicago can place these migrants exactly where they can receive the care they need. Be proactive, not reactive.
I found the Martha’s Vineyard reaction to illegal aliens telling – they talk the talk, but they don’t walk the talk.
Hypocrites. They couldn’t get those illegals out their community fast enough – all the while displaying supportive signage, hugging the ‘visitors,’ and providing great photo ops.
That’s the progressive liberal way. Disgusting!
Martha’s Vineyard is where community organizer Obama lives, are you telling me he couldn’t organize them in his own home town? Shocking!
Virtue signaling is fun until you’re called to walk your talk. (see also: NIMBY)
Dem Sanctuary Cities are a joke.
Also, Beetlejuice offers no solution to the border crisis in states like Texas.
How did this snapperhead get elected to any job?!!