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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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This is somewhat of a side note but not exactly. We all know that Biden and the aging population in general is incurring more dementia/cognitive impairment diagnosis but what is the underlying cause? Many of us may get this diagnosis so here is a possible deterrent. Low B12 levels. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7077099/ https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/jnp.12.3.389 Most of us are low in B12 due to the use of antacids like Omeprazole/Prilosec/etc which reduces acid but that acid is needed to breakdown and absorb B12 and other nutrients. I am not trying to make this article a medical story but is when a president and candidate… Read more »
Recall that then-candidate Biden campaigned from his basement in 2020, ostensibly due to fear of Covid. The State Media basically did the campaigning for him by amplifying the lies of Adam Schiff and the rest of the DNC hit squad while actively hiding the ‘Biden Family business’ of influence peddling and bribery, continued media mendacity that has poisoned the electorate and divided the country to this day. Our family has had close family elders with dementia and the loss of cognitive ability and candidate Biden exhibited verbal and physical behaviours that we had seen quite often. The shuffling gait and… Read more »
Check out this new, utterly devastating story about how dysfunctional Biden’s inner circle has been. It applies more broadly: “We’ve all enabled this situation” applies fully to most of legacy media and to Biden’s supporters. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/02/biden-campaign-debate-inner-circle-00166160
My, my how the worm has turned in four short years from “ Hey, Joe, what’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?”, “ Hey, Joe, how’s your dog doing?”, “Hey, Joe, how was your vacation?” to “ Run him out!”. It’s always amusing to watch the liberal snake attack its own tail.
Bidden is a bubbling old fool.
Trump has Zero integrity, ZERO. Not to be trusted under any circumstance.
Biden is a political grifter just like Madigan and Burke, he makes them look like choir boys. They do share a common characteristic, unwilling to give up their gravy train and the power that comes with it. That power exerted by Biden is what caused Trump to face prosecution in 4 different jurisdictions. That is nothing more than political strategy to keep Trump out of the White House to keep the grift going. The thing with grifters like that is they never have enough and won’t give it up. Burke and Madigan both could have had a comfortable retirement. Had… Read more »
The fall of the Chicago Tribune was quite amazing to watch. I don’t what or who has been keeping that toilet paper rag going the last 15 years but they must have unlimited amounts of money. The colonel is rolling in his grave.
First Craigslist killed the extremely profitable classified ads; then google destroyed the internet advertising. Then the universities went from 3/4 commie to full commie and created a generation of journalists who no longer even give lip service to “truth to power” and now just exist solely to protect the Democrat Party. Private equity scooped up the carcasses of the print media for a song and now exist to reproduce the same content everywhere. Quite honestly, there’s no need for different news media organization because they all produce the same content. There’s virtually no difference between any of them.
The online alternative media, like WP, is good IMHO – Much more depth and analysis. I believe when the WSJ kept Brent Stephens onboard for so long, that was it for me – I canceled my two subscriptions. I believe Stephens went to the NYT, so that says it all. Murdochs are no good.
The Trib’s editorial side has improved significantly in recent months, but the news side is disgraceful on national stories. They are shameless in promoting the Dem narrative and covering up stories critical of Biden and Dems.
Who did the Tribune endorse in 2020? I wonder who told the editorial board to write this piece now? I wonder who they think would be a suitable replacement? Could it be…….well, you know who.
His first term was ridiculous!!
Joe Biden is basically out of it, only somewhat lucid for 6 hours a day. Hunter acting like Tony Montana right before the Narco raid on his compound. Jill acting like Ma Barker. Why? The Biden Crime Family needs blanket immunity. Rep Nancy Mace said the largest investigative file reviewed in the SCIF on the Biden’s was for human trafficking. If we had a MSM that wasn’t an operative of the DNC, this would of been all over the press a year ago and Biden impeached
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/19/biden-family-profited-human-trafficking-house-inve/:
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Sure, evidence of human trafficking classified so we can’t see it. But from what I remember, Hunter Biden was living in his mansion in Los Angles using a website he found on a google search called uber GFE dot com. It always seemed crazy to me that the son of the vice-president didn’t go to LA to hang around movie stars or famous people, but rather, squirreled himself away in his home and hung around crazy russian call girls. In fact, Hunter Biden recorded himself telling some Ukrainian call girl – while smoking crack –… Read more »
The Bidens can’t afford for Joe to quit the race. They have no income source other than grifting.
He is not quitting the race except via the 25th Amendment or death.