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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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Delia should post her district boundaries on Fed-provided migrant phones, so migrants know where to go after being bussed to Chicago from Texas. Maybe Delia should establish a migrant shelter within her local school, or church, or neighborhood. Go Delia, go!
Every WP readers needs to take a field trip to Windsor, Ontario. Then on your way back to the US observe how your treated by US Customs personnel.
It’s a real eye opener and you pay their salaries too boot.
Dems are selling their “shit the bed” sanctuary state fiasco as a win — there’s just no polishing that policy turd
They’re doing this on purpose, they want to flood the country with illegals, so that in a generation or two, they’ll all vote democrat, and Republicans will never be in charge anywhere again.
Sure thing Delia, the United States is responsible for every person in the world. All 8 billion of them. It’s going to get real crowded here folks. What an idiot.
And Delia Ramirez is on twitter saying falsely that asylum is a constitutional right. She’s the one who, while in IL General Assembly, sponsored the bill giving Medicaid to illegal immigrants, and gave us a price tag that was off by 94X.