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Housing advocate LaShawn Brown said, "To receive this news about a facility that has been promised to the community, now more than 10 years after its closing, we are extremely shocked and not appreciating the fact that we don’t have a say. We don’t understand why our community has been chosen in light of the issues around the culture. We don’t have a Spanish-speaking community and are lacking the social services to match the needs we know they need."
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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Hey neighborhood, nice sanctuary you have there!
South Shore residents should contact their US representative, and Senators Durbin and Duckworth, and ask HOW Biden’s “open door” immigration policy helps US citizens, particularly those residing in South Shore presently. At minimum, these undocumented immigrants housed at South Shore HS will be competing for same services, same government benefits, some low-skill employment opportunities as low-income South Shore residents. Seems a high personal price for existing South Shore residents, as US citizens who reliably vote for Democrats, to pay to further political agenda of national Democratic Party. Ditto for all Chicago-residing US citizens, who are seeing their tax-dollars spent to… Read more »
So when the open border’s Democratic policy affects your neighborhood, all that Democratic benevolence for all ethnic groups disappears.
Seems racist to me.
“LaShawn Brown, who did you vote for…???”
Exactly! What did all these folks carping about accommodating illegal aliens in their neighborhoods vote for?
Well, folks, YOU GOT IT NOW.