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During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in Springfield, state Sen. Chapin Rose said historically, governors have had a 2 percent transfer power, but then it increased to 4 percent and now it’s up to 8 percent. Rose said it makes it hard to see where taxpayer money is going. Rose specifically pointed out that last fiscal year, $1.2 million went to the new agency, The Governor's Office of New Americans.
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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Watching the Opinion Shows yesterday evening (Not news anymore – just TV shows looking for ratings) some of them actually showed the images of the invaders pulling down protective fencing and razor wire and rushing the United State Boarder Patrol to enter our country. What part of that image do we not all understand? The fence and razor wire along with Boarder Patrol should show this is not a place to enter our Country. But nope, pull it down and fight with our boarder patrol. What happened next was stunning. The board patrol was required to actually process these people… Read more »
“The Governors Office of New Americans”. Wow, these Marxists never run out of misleading, mumbo jumbo phrases and words, do they? Newspeak in overdrive.
Pure Orwell. The insanity expands.
America is just an economic zone, and the Democrats intend to be the ruling class over this economic zone, much like other empires in history. If America refuses to colonize abroad, the states will bring their natives to us instead.
Oh pleeeeeezzzzzzzzeeeee