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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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The “deal” is you apply for citizenship. Just because you ignored immigration rules does not mean you get a free pass.
When your arguments against deportation are the same arguments Democrats made in 1861 in favor of slavery “Who will pick the fields, mow the lawns, clean your bathrooms?” Then YOU are on the wrong side of this argument.
No,no,no.
OK! Now let’s hear from the libs that are always carping that big business wants to keep the illegals here to exploit them! Something, anything, .. crickets…
One thing few people realize – especially the low IQ people who are in favor of illegal immigrant workers – is that getting rid of the illegals would lead to a wave of automated technology to replace the absent workers. As I saw on twitter once, somebody showed a pictured of an illegal squatting 100x a minute to get up and down to pick some crop, trying to act as if that was impressive, because he was so good at his job picking crops off the ground. This video was then overlayed with the words “squatting is a 10,000 year… Read more »
A landmine for the open borders crowd to illegals -, legal.
Example, legalizing those who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protection and then their parents.
H 2a Visas for lower skilled jobs are already in place they have no limitations as to the numbers. But they are Temporary and what this group wants is for them to be permanent and eventual citizenship.
Yea, that is the tip of the iceberg for this con game.
DACA ruled illegal AGAIN yesterday by a federal appeals court:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daca-ruling-appeals-court-illegal/