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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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Nothing like having your children being educated by people that don’t realize ICE can grab a known illegal criminal on the run whenever they see fit. Sorry progressives, school doesn’t equal sanctuary no matter what the SJW, Soros funded grifters tell you.
If Pritzker keeps pounding his chest Illinois will have a new Governor.
I doubt it. This is what Illinois has become through decades of illegal immigration. Since 1990 a million less Whites and 1.4 million more Hispanics.
I’m just saying a man in his physical condition shouldn’t be pounding his chest.
Cut All federal money to ANY school that defies immigration laws.
Schools would not have to take an active role in deportation but they would need to provide any information requested and take absolutely no efforts to impede federal officials.
I cannot believe the Champaign-Urbana killing of Chloe and Katherine and Laken in Georgia, among many others, are seemingly being brushed off and these satanic leaders are standing up for people that are not only illegally here but criminals. The move to protect them here is especially concerning given the overall congenial campus environment at colleges that is ripe for criminal enterprise. The unfettered human trafficking that is occurring and the proximity to the people they would target should be of utmost concern. You see human trafficking contact information in every airport, stores and even churches. We are all expendable… Read more »
Cut their funding immediately. Stop all private contributions, too.