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U.S. Reps. Sean Casten and Lauren Underwood, who are both seeking reelection and in hotly-contested races, received support from President Joe Biden, who participated in a political fundraiser Friday, and on Saturday, discussed Social Security and Medicare at a rally in Joliet.
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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Where’s Lori? She’s been noticeably absent from all the celebrity appearances. Is she bunkered down in her lake house near Minonk?
Lets Go Brandon!!
Biden is an anchor on anyone he campaigns for, without a doubt. No democrat needs that type of support. Hopefully Casten and Underwood both lose. He’s a nightmare and she’s just plain ineffective. Sean can attend drag queen bingo nights with his free time.
Never forget that many establishment ‘Republicans’ ran a whisper campaign for the corrupt dementia laden Biden in IL.
Chicago journalism is dead. This article, and I assume an on-camera segment, is nothing more than a campaign commercial for the reprehensible Casten and feckless Underwood. A detail left out is that Illinois is a blue state and those two stooges had no trouble getting installed last election. There seems a smell of desperation to having a deeply unpopular president being tasked with a rally so late in the game. The polls have the dems shellshocked. So, NBC5, where are those 81 million voters? I’d like to know where they went, or if they ever really existed at all. If… Read more »
Any person with a functioning brain could see that printing millions of mail in ballots that are verifiable was a recipe for fraud and distrust. It’s exactly what they wanted. The uniparty has a plan, voters be dammed.
edit – “not” verifiable
That should be treated as an in kind contribution by their opponents as Kari Lake said last week.
The degenerate party will pull out all the stops, the more looney the better. Now they are claiming that voting for a Hispanic is a vote for white supremacy. Our demise is being run from Davos. The US became too successful. A country of refugees from Europe became the most successful in history. We financially funded World War Two with our industry.Russia funded the war with their blood. We then funded the Marshal Plan to rebuild from the war. We doled out money everywhere and we’re hated for it! The United States is a nice place. Then DJT came along… Read more »
There’s a secular belief system nearly all of our global elites adhere to. It has all the tenets of a religion without calling it that. The GAE (Global American Empire) isn’t going anywhere. It is still on top especially compared to mess that is other countries. They’re not trying to take America down as much as reshape it according to their own beliefs, as crazy as those beliefs are. The difficult part to accept is that you, the peasant, is the carbon they intend to reduce.
Their belief system is bound to fail as it ignores cause and effect and fails any test of sound logic. Genital mutilation and transgenderism is a poor recipe for growth. If you find children expensive and inconvenient; just kill them, any age is permitted. These idiots think euthanasia is a TV program about Korean children! Support for lunacy is going to evaporate quickly! Vote Republican! Has Lori gone into seclusion?
Yes, the system is bound to fail, but it keeps winning all around the world. It has some set backs here and there: Sweden, Brazil most recently, but it comes back with a vengeance.
Ever vigilant! You know they’ll be back having identified everywhere they screwed up and that’s a significant undertaking. They need to be stopped as soon as the emerge from their basement and emerge into daylight. Treat them like they’re wearing a Klan hood.