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Emanuel agreed with most candidates in supporting reparations for descendants of slavery, but said that all citizens need to keep in mind that the city has a significant budget deficit to tackle.
I can't believe that special interest nonsense is even a topic for discussion regardless of finances.
Coupled with Chicago residents' share of state pension debt, covering the unfunded liabilities of public pensions would now cost every man, woman and child in Chicago more than $11,934, up from $2,442 just a decade ago, the report found.
Public pensions are keeping what remains of the chicago middle class families in the city. Neighborhoods on the northwest side and southwest side of chicago are still alive and thriving because of those pensions. Take away the benefits of city employment and major parts of Chicago will become become economically ravaged. Unfortunately, most people commenting on this thread live in trendy or heavily gentrifying north side neighborhoods or even in the suburbs. Neighborhoods like Dunning, Norwood Park, Garfield Ridge and Clearing are't in their vocabulary and most likely they have never even been to these parts of the city.
Yeah he is gangsta.
Just the type you want to empower with the responsibility of running the third largest city in the nation ( that is until enough move out to give Houston the honor).
Please explain. I did not vote for Rahm (I'm a lefty who voted for Del Valle, whose political policies would probably make the collective heads explode of the conservatives who hang out on this forum, much moreso that Rahm who was easily the most conservative candidate on the ballot in my opinion), but he seems to have won pretty fair and square, by getting the 50% of the vote +1.
Rahm Emanuel: All the votes and back room deals money can buy.
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