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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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There were 300 National Guard deployed per the Chicago Tribune. Unless they do math like CPS, it is hard to imagine that they paid $66K per guard for the month. On top of that, the federal government pays 75-80% of the costs of the Illinois Guard. I think that justifies a president using the Guard over the objections of a do-nothing governor.
It is just like Illinois grifters to take credit for something done by someone else.
And why didn’t Dick retire yet?
National Guard in Illinois: Questions on cost of deployment grow
Send the bill to the judge and democrats for Obstructing federal immigration laws !!!
Right in cue, big spending Dems complain about spending they don’t like because it only affects their voters.
Hilarious!
Money well spent.
How much have the illegal immigrants cost?
That’s an inconvenient fact that the Dicks of the Democratic Party don’t want mentioned. Dick also needs to explain why he blocked the release of the Epstein files several years ago. That’s another inconvenient fact that Dick can’t get away from fast enough as he finally slithers out the door to leave another DSA like Raj, Kelly or Smokey Stratton to pick up where he left off.