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Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs
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Posted on 08/10/2010 4:38:51 PM PDT by traumer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Summoned back from summer break, the House on Tuesday pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs. President Barack Obama immediately signed it into law.

Lawmakers streamed back to Washington for a one-day session as Democrats declared a need to act before children return to classrooms minus teachers laid off because of budgetary crises in states that have been hard-hit by the recession.

Republicans saw it differently, calling the bill a giveaway to teachers' unions and an example of wasteful Washington spending that voters will punish the Democrats for in this fall's elections. The legislation was approved mainly along party lines by a vote of 247-161.

The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by closing a tax loophole used by multinational corporations and by reducing food stamp benefits for the poor.

Obama, joined by teachers at a Rose Garden ceremony earlier in the day, said, "We can't stand by and do nothing while pink slips are given to the men and women who educate our children or keep our communities safe."

The Senate narrowly passed the measure last Thursday, after the House had begun its August break.

The legislation provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or to ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins. The Education Department estimates that could save 160,000 jobs.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bailout; buyingvotes; dncmoneypool; education; grift; nea; payoff; teachers; unions; votefraud
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To: traumer
BACHMANN/RYAN 2012

TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

61 posted on 08/10/2010 6:35:15 PM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

What private sector? This is about building and reinforcing a massive civilian socialist voting block, paid for by taxing those older, retired “outdated Americans”.


62 posted on 08/10/2010 6:41:06 PM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: Lucky9teen

Yes


63 posted on 08/10/2010 6:41:42 PM PDT by petitfour (Are you a Dead Fish American?)
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To: historyrepeatz

DOES BACHMANN HAVE AN EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE TO RUN FOR PREXY?


64 posted on 08/10/2010 6:45:46 PM PDT by japaneseghost
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To: traumer

How many payoffs does the democrat voter base expect to get? It seems like every other day there’s another zillion dollar spending bill for another democrat constituency that has to be passed or the world will stop spinning.


65 posted on 08/10/2010 6:53:27 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act - Orwell)
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To: WestSylvanian
you don't see our so called leaders and ‘public servants’ in washington tightening the belt or scaling back on anything. They will suck you dry before they experience any discomfort or reduction in their grand life styles. Why? because we let them.
66 posted on 08/10/2010 6:55:34 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: traumer

The Constitution. The very basis of our Nation, the supreme law of our Nation is an ignored, trampled, and unenforced legal document at the hands of the Marxist/Leftists.

Everything they are doing is illegal, and that must be our belief as we take back control of what’s left of our country.

They must pay for their deliberate destruction of our system of government, and our economy. They have screwed over not only our Nation, but the entire Free World that depended upon our morality, and our strength.


67 posted on 08/10/2010 7:01:20 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: freedumb2003

I’m laughing right along side you. I live in New York and have to travel regularly to New Jersey for business. I take the Verrazano Bridge. A bit of history on the bridge:

It opened in 1964. The cost of the bridge was $320,000,000.

The toll on this bridge was put in place to pay for the bridge. That toll is has been $11 (slightly discounted for EZ Pass) for the last year or so. Before that it was $9 discounted for EZ Pass.

Every day, about 180,000 tolls are paid to the Verrazano. That means the Verrazano takes in $1,800,000 every day. That means every 177 days - or just short of six months - the Verrazano bridge pays for itself. Every six months.

Any chance that toll might go away now that it’s raison d’etre is gone? Of course not.

As Reagan noted, government programs are the closest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth. Taxes are the second closest.


68 posted on 08/10/2010 7:02:53 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act - Orwell)
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To: traumer
The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by... reducing food stamp benefits for the poor.
 
Gee, taking food away from the hungry and giving it to $100,000/yr education bureaucrats - yeah, that's really kind and compassionate.
69 posted on 08/10/2010 7:08:41 PM PDT by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
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To: Tzimisce
WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS END....?
70 posted on 08/10/2010 7:10:19 PM PDT by traumer
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To: traumer

another unions payoff....... =.=


71 posted on 08/10/2010 7:12:47 PM PDT by cranked
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To: traumer
The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by ... and by reducing food stamp benefits for the poor.
72 posted on 08/10/2010 7:14:52 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: ExTxMarine
This bill also forces one state - Texas - to maintain or raise their educational spending or risk losing $830MIL in federal education moneys!

Actually, it's making every state do that. The difference for Texas is that the bill keeps the funding rules for Texas in place through 2013. It only binds the rest of the states for the 2011 budget.

Their reasoning is that Texas "didn't spend enough of their stimulus money" in 2009.

This whole thing is incredible and illustrates once again how the 16th Amendment and the "Hamiltonian" interpretation of the Spending Clause has allowed Congress to use its expanded taxing and spending powers to circumvent the 10th Amendment's prohibition against the federal commandeering of state government. At least two governors, Haley Barbour and Rick Perry, are coming out against it at least.
73 posted on 08/10/2010 7:17:34 PM PDT by The Pack Knight (Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and the world laughs at you.)
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To: traumer

“We doing it fo the chid-rin”


74 posted on 08/10/2010 7:21:16 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Party Like It's 1773....)
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To: mojito

Exactly.


75 posted on 08/10/2010 7:23:39 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: petitfour
Our state VOTED to raise sales taxes temporarily to halt teacher layoffs and/or other education cuts. Why couldn’t other states do the same?

I would not pay a dime in taxes to "avoid teacher layoffs" because there is way too much deadwood in education budgets and laying off teachers is only the government's way of punishing the taxpayers instead of tightening their own belts. How about they trim 99.9% of all those adminstrative positions that add so much quality to public education first?

76 posted on 08/10/2010 7:28:22 PM PDT by Puddleglum ("due to the record harvest, rationing will continue as usual")
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To: SF_Redux

mmm, mmm, mmm is right.

So let me get this strait. The highest property tax I pay is a city tax. To fund schools in my city. I can vote in or out a school board member that I feel is a goofball.

But now part of my federal taxes will go to fund Blah Blah, (Insert The State here), where I have no voting rights?

mmm, mmm, mmm...no politics involved here. Congratulations NEA...major victory.


77 posted on 08/10/2010 8:12:34 PM PDT by berdie (Hey, Bill Mahr...That's Mrs. Cracker to you.)
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To: japaneseghost

I don’t know but FR is a good start. I’m beating the drum as loud as I can. THUMP, THUMP, THUMP!


78 posted on 08/10/2010 8:41:00 PM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: traumer
The whole thing is breaking down. In a Bot-ox induced delirium, Pelosi feared her union base would desert the “Party” if she could not throw another $28,000,000,000.00 of generational taxpayer DEBT to them.

FUNP

FUBO

79 posted on 08/10/2010 8:49:30 PM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: Gabrial
BUT...... its for the children ! whats wrong with you tea partiers ! why do you hate childern ! ! [/sarcasm]
80 posted on 08/10/2010 8:55:59 PM PDT by KTM rider ( ..........tell me this really isn't happening ! !)
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