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Protest organizers said President Donald Trump is "out of control" but "Chicago is united in resistance, and we will defend our neighbors every single minute of every single day.”
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 is another 80/20 issue the President and our country will win on !
Pritzker’s henchmen!
JB the Hutt and Mayor Cliff Notes both encourage and allow these small disruptions, as they serve to foster the useless Chicago media’s narrative greatly exaggerating support for these two buffoons’ anti-American policies.
Blocking sidewalks and streets in an empty downtown is a non-event. Nobody cares.
I would let the Marxists do it because eventually they’ll get bored and go back to their homeless shelters.
Doesn’t look like many protesters from the picture. Probably running out of money to pay them.
These tantrums haven’t been the same since USAID funds for Rent-A-Mobs was cut off.
Arrest the protesters for blocking traffic.
You’re not going to get normal American supporting your cause when you impede their daily activities.
Looks like another strong reason not to relocate to, or open a business, in Chicago.
“Unemployable Soros funded socialists with nothing to do shut down streets with America’s Worst Mayor’s blessing”-there’s your headline. If the Palestinian( our country? What? Come again? ) and his like minded SJW’s don’t like it, not a single person will stop him from going back where he belongs. It won’t be Lebanon, Egypt or a host of other Arabic countries though – they don’t want them.
Pepper balls and teargas is the answer to this problem.
Bring out da water cannons on these un-American lefties!!