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An influx of migrants arriving in several American cities is straining budgets and shelter resources, inflaming political tensions and sparking fights over who should pay to accommodate them.
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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Brandon Johnson hates cops and thinks they do a terrible job at keeping social order, but speed dials them when he needs babysitters for his guests.
Again the correct term is illegal aliens or public charges.
If you don’t come in legally, nobody should pay to accommodate you. Our country is being weakened beyond belief by the fallacy that there are no limits to immigration capacity. If you overload the lifeboats everyone dies.