Posted on 04/12/2024 5:59:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
During a portion of an interview with CNBC that was recorded in February and aired on Thursday’s “Cities of Success,” Denver Mayor Mike Johnston responded to a question on if the city was too open to migrants and too generous by stating that “it’s a balance. We want to be a welcoming city” but doing that without federal help “requires shared sacrifice, it requires compromise. So, we are both making cuts to city budgets to meet this financial need, and we are making cuts to the amount of services we can provide to the migrants that arrive and to the number of folks that we can serve.”
Johnston said that the number of migrants that came to the city was “much higher than what we thought. I will say, what we’re very proud of is, like other problems, we’ve taken this on, we’ve figured out an entrepreneurial approach, and we’ve figured out a path to solve it. Of the 40,000 migrants who have arrived in this city, as of tonight, I have a regular count, we have about 40 to 45 migrants total that are unsheltered tonight. That means 99.9% of those 40,000 have come through, gotten connected to services, housing, work, and made it successfully. So, we figured out how to run this machine, how to welcome people, get them connected to legal clinics, provide them wrap-around resources. To do that well just requires resources, and so, our challenge is, we can do it well with federal help, we can do it well with more work authorization, we can do it well with a coordinated plan for entry. Without any of those three, the work becomes tougher. But we’ve now doubled down, assuming there’s no federal help coming, and we’re going to figure it out on our own.
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$150k/year is not very much. Certainly not enough for a gated community.
Those remarks should lead to the mayor’s demise, in a sane world. Colorado who knows. They certainly are asking for more, why not oblige?
In some parts of the country is...and it’s even more possible if his “husband” is also pulling down $150K a year.
Wasn’t this article about Denver?
The Denver mayor is gay too? Not just the governor? I honestly dont know. Still, $300K is pretty middle class.
“It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.” ― Ayn Rand
Yes,$300K a year is middle class in San Francisco and New York. But it sure as hell ain't in Kansas City,Greensboro or Moline,Illinois. Don't know about Denver though.
It sounds like what is most needed in Denver at the moment is a new Mayor.
Much easier and more cost effective than the proposed solution.
Rand was a prophet.
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I welcome the Aztec v Zulu civil war.
Yep - I saw that and made a correction.
I used to fly to Denver, Vail and Aspen all the time.
It is only a matter of time before Vail and Aspen fall.
Democrats have absolutely destroyed every single great thing about America.
Wasn’t volunteering to be a “welcoming city” (sanctuary) to the freeloading, foreign deadbeat illegal aliens what got you idiot Californians in Colorado in trouble before? Being the local welcome wagon to these those illegal alien cicadas can get pretty damn expensive.
Great! Let's all share in the sacrifice of Mike Johnson.
We could have a Democratic vote on how!
“Lemme guess...this Mayor pulls down $150K a year,...”
That’s just his salary. And that won’t pay for a gated community. Like all commies and lefty politicians, his real income comes from influence peddling and political favors.
“Shared sacrifice” — I can’t believe he said that. What unmitigated gall to tell people thatTHEY have to sacrifice for his pet project which probably has few supporters. “We are going to give YOUR hard earned tax money to the invaders. Thank you for sacrificing.”
Start with his house.
Welcoming illegal aliens doesn’t seem to appear in his job description for some reason.
These idiots think this is a “one and done” operation. Don’t they know they will get 40,000 per year from here to eternity? There is infinite demand around the world for your free money.
Another joint where you have to be extremely careful on the sidewalks and watch where you step.
"From each according to their ability to each according to their needs" - K. Marx
pathological excessive compassion, altruism, and sacrifice is a combination of overcompensation + masochism
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