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"Instead of acting with compassion or foresight, Illinois leaders encouraged and even incentivized illegal immigration, sending a dangerous message that anyone could come here without consequence. That’s not compassion — that’s cruelty."
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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Justice won’t bring her back, JB is 100% responsible for her death, I hope he rots in hell.
Illegal immigrants kill at a lower rate than homegrown Americans.
And toddlers kill at a lower rate than adults. Nice straw man argument.
If illegal aliens weren’t here in the first place their homicide rate would be ZERO and not one person would be killed. You see how common sense works?
Outstanding!
Don’t feed the troll.
What a perverse comment. This young woman would be alive were the illegal not here. Would you be rationalizing this way were it your kid or spouse?
So a little murder, child trafficking, drug/ gun running etc. is okay from people that shouldn’t be in this country in the first place, right? What would be the limit of acceptability for this segment? Please let us know.
They shouldn’t even be here in the first place! That’s the difference!
BUT now that they’re here, what can be done … to cause them to go back? What sort of return program would get 51% approval from the PPF Posse? One can see why Trump has tried to use ICE. When you think about it, it’s a step toward vigilantism … government employees act on behalf of voters who want “them” gone. While mobs act (or pretend to act) on behalf of those who want them here. It’s political theatre on a big stage. Better than heading to the barricades, I suppose. The rest of us in the audience pay big… Read more »