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Sen. Tammy Duckworth, the first US senator to give birth in office, discusses the rising cost of childcare in America.
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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That Tammy, a real women-of-the-people, straight from her 6 bedroom mansion in a tone neighborhood of Virginia.
Families are struggling. Let’s allow 10,000,000 illegals to come in and compete for limited resources, that’ll be great for struggling lower income families!
Ms. Duckworth is concerned with the cost of childcare? Who is going to provide for the invading hordes descending on our country? Housing, medical care, food, education and crime?
There’s a tsunami and she’s concerned about the cost of childcare?
Stupid chicken!