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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TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
What private sector? This is about building and reinforcing a massive civilian socialist voting block, paid for by taxing those older, retired “outdated Americans”.
Yes
DOES BACHMANN HAVE AN EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE TO RUN FOR PREXY?
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.
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.
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.
another unions payoff....... =.=
“We doing it fo the chid-rin”
Exactly.
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?
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.
I don’t know but FR is a good start. I’m beating the drum as loud as I can. THUMP, THUMP, THUMP!
FUNP
FUBO
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