Obama's $23 Billion Teachers Unions Bailout

Publius Forum ^ | 05/17/10 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

As the rest of us in America lose jobs by the millions, Obama wants to spend another $23 billion more of your taxes on public employees in a teacher bailout plan proposed by Senator Tom Harkin (D, Iowa).

Harkin wants this new public employees bailout in order to prevent teachers layoffs, a concern echoed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. "We are gravely concerned," said Duncan in a letter to Congress, "that ongoing state and local budget challenges are threatening hundreds of thousands of teacher jobs for the upcoming school year."

Oh, Duncan had all sorts of recommendations for Congress on this newest bailout...

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

[Mobile Vulgus]

Another union thug payoff.

[a fool in paradise]

Another political payback, trillions of dollars looted from the economy with the goal of funding the 2010 and 2012 Democrat campaigns with “donations” from the receipiants of the politburo’s protected interests.

[hattend]

"We are gravely concerned," said Duncan in a letter to Congress, "that ongoing state and local budget challenges are threatening hundreds of thousands of teacher jobs for the upcoming school year."

"And a big "F You" to the majority of tax-payers who aren't in a teacher's union." Duncan added

November / January 20th 2011 can't come soon enough.

[ntmxx]

Another “Friend of Government” receiving their undue swag on the back of the citizenry.

[loveliberty2]

Tie the learning performance of children to the job security of teachers, and there will be money enough to reward good teachers left over from those who will have to find another line of work.

A teacher once said, "Teaching and learning are so intertwined that one cannot claim that one is going on without the other."

In other words, those who call themselves by the name of "teacher" will, of necessity improve the learning performance of children or they must be called by another name. They certainly are not teachers.

[xkaydet65]

If the govt is saving 300K teacher jobs with 23Billion in monopoly money, think about this. If the average union dues is $800 a year, then the American taxpayers or China will be paying $240,000,000 to the NEA and the AFT this year.

[wiggen]

Let the teachers give up their pensions and they can keep their jobs. Otherwise to heck with them.

[citizenredstater9271]

Every union in this country needs to be busted not bailed out. Unions mean the death of true free market capitalism. They make bosses pay more so the boss has to fire more people. How can we stop unions????