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Fundraising for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago plummeted by more than 50 percent in 2023, a dramatic drop that follows years of high-profile financial support. Beyond the declining donations, there’s rising concern over how the funds are being used. IRS filings reveal that the Obama Presidential Center spent over $5 million on “executive compensation” in 2023 alone.
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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If you were Obama, why wouldn’t you cheat? You see the guy, twice president, high social status, fugly wife. Of course he’s going to cheat. That’s why they’re getting divorced. And deep down, deep down, he’s been red pilled. We all saw him at Jimmy Carter’s funeral…they were chatting it up… they actually get along. Obama might be more red-pilled beyond what any of us believe. He’s always been a politician, willing to say or do whatever it took to get ahead. But deep down, he knows Trump is right, and agrees with him, but lacked the cajones to do… Read more »
Their true legacy is emerging from the Swamp and their allies are getting cut off from access to government. With no more motivation for pay to play, ‘investing’ in their monument to fealty becomes unattractive at best.
Obama Presidential Center. Clinton Foundation. Discuss.
I (in a hoity voice) gave to the Obama’s…, no longer is a sign of intelligence at the cocktail party.
It’s got to be asked, how much US AID money flowed to Obama’s Chinese food carton building?
You just know it happened.
Poor Michelle. She sacrificed so much to move from South Shore to having three ocean front mansions.