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Marching through the streets of West Loop, hundreds unified in their opposition to cuts by the Trump administration. In Illinois, people also gathered in Rockford, Champaign and Carbondale.
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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this isn’t about feeding illegals; it’s about public sector unions like SEIU and NGO’s that get their 50% cut, with kickbacks to gov’t officials.
So sad. Ever since the USAID funds for Rent-a-mobs got cut, these gatherings of whining leftists just aren’t the same any more.
Cutting funding for illegals should be applauded. They are not entitled to Medicaid benefits, or any other taxpayer funds since they are not citizens. Able bodied citizens should get a job.