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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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Wrecking America seems to be of little consequence to the Marxist Democrats as long as they have power.
Too little, too late.
Where have these fools been the last two and a half years while our southern border states have been being over run?
This is a TRAGEDY orchestrated by the Biden administration. At a minimum, incompetence and malfeasance, at worst, criminal.
Our country is forever changed – thanks to Joe Biden and those who promoted and support him.
The damage from this and the rest of his woke policies may be our country’s undoing.
Spot on Pat. It didn’t get any MSM coverage until Abbot started shipping them to blue states.
Very little reporting on the thousands of young, fit Chinese nationals coming into America w/o a border. They have been observed traveling in groups and are dressed similar. The guess is the CCP is establishing PLA encampments in America like they did with their secret ‘police stations’.
Many of them working on illegal cannabis farms throughout the country. Maine has scores of them The state of Maine has become a breeding ground for Chinese illegal marijuana grows worth billions of dollars, according to a federal memo obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation. There are 270 suspected Chinese illegal marijuana grow operations in Maine worth an estimated $4.37 billion, according to the memo. “There are hundreds of these operations occurring throughout the state. It’s upsetting to those who live near these operations, and even those who are following Maine laws and procedures,” Penobscot County Sheriff Troy… Read more »
Jack, that’s a very serious issue being overlooked, especially since the CCP a couple weeks ago issued a statement saying it’s the duty of all Chinese citizens to spy for their country:https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3229795/under-new-law-china-encouraging-citizens-spy-each-other-us-says?module=live&pgtype=homepage
The Border Czar has zero interest in visiting border. Why would her boss have any interest in visiting a particular impacted city?
Kamala Walla Balla is cackling again – The Obama effect
To quote Obammy’s Mentor
The Democrats’ Chickens are coming home to roost
Folks, every Dem and person who voted for Biden, every person who facilitated mail in voting, those of you who papered over ballot counting room windows etc has blood on your hands. You contributed to the end of America as we knew it for an illusion….
These immigrants are a Democrats dream though as they are counted for House of Representative apportionment. The more immigrants the more Democrat Electoral votes. Yes they bit off more than they can chew but with tax hikes all will work out well…for the Democrats