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The squad is made up of asylum seekers staying at a South Side shelter. They will play in a tournament against other refugees from around the world who now call Chicago home. “I feel good because I did this in Ecuador, and I thought coming here I wouldn’t have the time,” Jacobo Gomez said, “I’d be too busy working, you know, chasing the American dream.”
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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Clown world again and again.
The american dream is to pay a coyote to illegal migrate to america, remain unemployed and play soccer all day, with free medical care paid for by the natives. This is a completely different American dream than any previous generation’s understanding of the American dream.
Yup… I don’t see the words “work” or “strive” or “sacrifice” in this new immigration “equation”…