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"Many big-city residents have lost patience with progressives’ permissive attitude toward illegal immigration. That’s why Chicago’s Brandon Johnson rehearsed his answers for days, and Ms. Wu spent about $650,000 of public money on lawyers to prepare her, according to the Boston Herald. Taxpayers should ask for their money back, because the mayors’ message was the same."
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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How much did taxpayers pay to coach BJ?
Democrats *must* support the party line these days, no matter what. Sen. Mark Warner-D-VA – a purple state – said the other day that Trump was doing a good job making progress at the border. The fallout from this comment was so swift and harsh from Democrat leaders, that the following day, he was forced to grovel through a Struggle Session on MSNBC reminiscent of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and he said, exact quote, “My Words Yesterday… Were Not Great” because he implicitly admitted that illegal immigration – and hence illegal immigrants – was not good, and that Trump was doing… Read more »
Their obedience to the party line is truly astonishing. They are lemmings, and that Warner thing is a great example. They can’t even tolerate somebody saying that it’s nice that the border is now being enforced.
I listened to a pundit the other day compared Democrats to the conflict between the Bolsheviks vs. the Mensheviks. Put very basically, the Bolsheviks believed in forcing communism down Russia’s throat whether they liked it or not; while the Mensheviks believed in slowly reforming Russia into a communist utopia. Today’s Democrats are much like the Bolsheviks – no dissent, no questioning the party line, rigid conformity towards the goal of revolution. It may have worked well in 1919 when they overthrew the Tsar and Duma but is failing miserably in a republic where people can vote them out of office… Read more »
Democrats thought they were buying support from their “coalition”. Democrats didn’t realize that all the while their “coalition” was buying them. The politicians though they were in control, but now find they were mistaken. They sold their souls to the devil, and the bill has come due.
Mega donations + an army of foot soldiers = control of the party. People ask who is the leader of the Democratic party now? Look at recent Democrat lunacy. Look at Chicago, and think what that would look like if applied on a national scale.
That’s a good way to look at it.