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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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Instead of sending them to the farms, Johnson should hire them as social workers to respond to all of the crime situations in the city.
Isn’t it racist to go tell the illegals to go pick some crops?
I say that we lodge them in every Hyatt and as part of their keep they have to do all hotel jobs such as house keeping, room service, laundry, etc.
What farms? What work? McHenry County 20 years ago maybe? I think the plan is just ship ‘them’ to ‘the country’ then accuse ‘country folk’ of racist hatred? (tree/plant) Nurseries are struggling/defunct because zero contributory development in areas of TIF-subsidized 3.6% property tax rates. Menards/Walmart buy their garden-center product from Florida. Large-scale ag (corn&soybeans) is all automated. Hand-picked farm produce is a window of work opportunity of, at most, 6 weeks. There is no meaningful public transportation in McHenry County. There are no meaningful work opportunities in McHenry County except government work. To open a business here is economic death… Read more »
Why, sure, lets send them out into the US to spread out and take up resources in small towns all over Illinois. Sure, that’s the ticket, get them out of Chicago and into the rural areas, so we can all share in the crime. Nevermind that we have no idea where these people are from, what they are actually doing here…nope no worries, all is well. Idiocy.
Does this moron honestly think Venezuela is going to expedite background checks for 10,000 people and certify them?
It says a lot that JB is just going to throw these migrants in the middle of a soybean field and let them find their way. He doesn’t value or understand farming. He just wants them out of the way before the convention hits town.
How about we train migrants to drive CPS school buses? There’s an immediate need, they probably drove crappier vehicles in their homeland so driving a school bus should be easy, and screaming kids won’t phase them one bit. Then when they get their first paycheck, they can ask, “Who’s FICA?”
Only who is FICA, because illegals all claim 8 exemptions, so that no federal or state taxes are taken out whatsoever.
Picking and squatting crops is a 10,000 year old technology. The only reason farmers still use illegals to pick crops is because they don’t want to invest in technology. These days, we have robots and machinery that can do the job of 10 illegals for the same price but 1/10th the time. Most of IL crops aren’t harvested by illegal anyways, we use machines to harvest soybeans and corn. JB has no idea what he is talking about, which is once again, the reason why I say when he’s lying he doens’t even know if he’s lying, he’s just spouting… Read more »
Learn to farm.
Pritzker Want To Dump Illegals On Downstate Farms
Yeah, and the timing is great. The illegals would not have time to get situated before the fall harvest is complete. Then they would just occupy the downstate towns and drain them of the limited resources they have all winter. Great way to make forced change in the demographics of these towns. Pritzker is as corrupt as they get. An alternative idea would be to quickly build shelters on the grounds of Ravinia.