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Before the lobbying squeeze, key members of the Black Caucus, in closed-door briefings, had strenuously opposed new migrant funding, sources said. Her success leaves Chicago taxpayers to shoulder a burden that has exacerbated historic political tensions between Black and Hispanic Chicagoans and fueled a “what about us” debate between migrants and local residents.
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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Some photos you cannot unsee. This is one of them.
When the ‘dog whistle’ is blown, Blacks in Chicago fall in line like always. So sit down, shut up, shove over, and squeeze in for the illegals.
The picture is perfect, ” The blind leading the blind”,
If you want to know what’s wrong with Chicago and Cook County, take a look at the picture. Class dismissed.
Toni the Taxwinkle Octopus is firmly in charge in case you haven’t figured it out yet.