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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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Big question, if the feds are going to dole out $billions$ to cities & states for migrants crisis, is it only going to bailout southern border states and big blue sanctuary cities? If your a federal taxpayer in non-sanctuary Indiana, for example, your going to be OK bailing out sanctuary Chicago’s endless migrant mess with your hard earned tax $?…I don’t think so.
If D’s control congress and the presidency in 2024, and there’s a greater than 50/50 chance that’s going to happen, Indiana won’t have any choice to bail out the rest of the blue states. It will be forced upon them. You have to understand, the US had a massive migration wave from roughly 1890 to 1910, and it wasn’t too long after that, all those immigrants and their children voted Democrat for generations. It started during the 1910’s when Democrats controlled congress and the presidency, and they lost it for a brief period during the roaring 20’s, but by the… Read more »
So the answer is to provide more funding rather than to shut the border down; amazing what goes on these days.
So typical: create a crisis, then expect kudos for “fixing” it … but the Dems don’t see a crisis with open borders.
It’s part of something bigger … but what? The “new world order” Blinken let slip in one of his press conferences?
Me thinks nefarious plans afoot.
The system is not broken. Its rules are being willfully ignored, by both migrants and every summer school valedictorian in the Capitol and the WH.
Secure and close the border ahole.