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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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Since when did camping morph into staying somewhere year round, setting up permanent boundaries and leaving used needles and feces everywhere?
They’re NOT homeless camps, they’re DRUG USER camps.
As Adam Corolla has pointed out, the reason that no one they knew took them in when they lost their home is because they’re DRUG USERS, and no one, especially their family who knows them the best, wanted an unstable DRUG USER in their house.
This is the unspoken crux of the problem.
And they accuse Trump of being a dictator.”You vill put up wif ziss third world condition, undt you vill like it!”
Sure – Of course – camp anywhere you want, crap in my front yard, sure go ahead and use my grill and patio table for your meals – no worries…Citizens are being told by our government that we must allow this…did anyone ask the citizens about this stupidity? Likely Another unelected official making sweeping decisions that impact everyday tax payers. Regular Illinois residents get little or nothing for their tax dollars…then this happens and they pile more stupidity on.
The entire west coast was begging the Supreme Court to let them clear homeless encampments, but here in Illinois, we are encouraging it. Why is Illinois always a day late and a dollar short on common sense? It truly defies logic.
We all know why… Fat Boy and the Democrat douches.
We passed the dollar amount a long time ago.
So the state of Illinois is now inviting homeless to camp on a city’s public lands. I can’t make sense of that, no matter how I read it. Thank goodness we’re not as warm as California.
In major decision, Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless camps
June 28, 2024
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-decision-bans-homeless-encampments/73677194007/
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court ruled Friday that people without homes can be arrested and fined for sleeping in public spaces, overturning a lower court’s ruling that enforcing camping bans when shelter is lacking is cruel and unusual punishment. The 6-3 decision was the most significant ruling on the issue from the high court in decades.
I’ll personally hire a U-Haul to move them all onto the lawn of the capitol building in Springrad. Let’s see how that goes over.
It is wild no doubt. It’s almost like Illinois saw an opportunity to out California, California. If people want to end this they need to take a page out of Gov Abbott’s playbook and bring this issue right to the politicians proverbial back yard or their literal sidewalk in front of their homes. Imagine homeless camps on the sidewalks set up in front of every democrats home and in front of their kids schools and parks. You could probably provide homeless people meals and other necessities to make this happen. It would be relatively inexpensive to make it happen and… Read more »
Intimidation? That easily turns into threats, then violence as time passes and tempers flare. That’s essentially the expected outcome for some there many times. Surely you can do better here.