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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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Durbin’s daughter, according to Laura Loomer, is hiring paid actors to read scripts to speak out against Republican senators. It’s all astroturfed. All of DC Democrats are astroturfed. None of it is real.
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1887578406419865790
Where does old Dickie boy think those drugs are coming from? Any chance they were coming in through the wide open borders the last four years Dick! What a hypocrite this doofus is.
One more reason to try to censor online platforms. They must be planning for the next pandemic.