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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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Redirect to Oak Park and Evanston. In Evanston the lucky black ones will get reparation money. Double virtue signaling bonus!!!
It is time to start treating people that cross the border for what they are TOURISTS , issue them a tourist visa at the border, then deport them if they over their visit, give them a 120 day visa.
$500MM of state funds appropriated, spent so far by us for the care, feeding, and pursuit of happiness of people who care not what happens to us or this country as a result of their pursuits.
More funds will be required from us come 2024.
The benefits to citizens?
The benefits to citizens is they get to house, feed and educate the children of the immigrants. The immigration issue was an election thig and the people of Illinois spoke. I just wish my downstate Democrat voting city was graced with some of the busses as I would love to see the expressions on my neighbors faces when busses were unloaded here. I just don’t know how to volunteer my city : (
Brandon claims his leadership has calmed the crisis. Even the rotund Governor would take issue with that misinformation. Newsflash Brando, you aren’t a sanctuary city if you redirect or impound the buses. There’s no arguing this point. Sanctuary means you take them in, end of story.