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Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Chicago on Tuesday with her husband, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, to deliver remarks at the National Education Association 2022 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly at the McCormick Place Convention Center.
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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VP Giggles is going to meet with the teachers’ union. Pity she didn’t learn much when she sat in their classes.
Now she lectures others.
SMDH
Please don’t come – the last thing we need is Ms. Harris and her spouse. Where was WH interest when a black man drove a vehicle through the Waukesha Christmas parade killing five and injuring 48? Nothing. Even the news reports referenced the vehicle mowed down the parade – little to nothing about the individual behind the wheel. No White House interest at all – white perpetrator with a rifle and they come out of the woodwork to tout their useless gun control nonsense. It’s a MENTAL HEALTH issue, folks, exacerbated by the useless and cruel lockdowns that ruined our… Read more »