WAKE UP AMERICA
Posted on 08/11/2010 5:22:40 PM PDT by jazusamo
As President Obama's poll numbers continue to slide, congressional Democrats faced with increasingly tough re-election contests are turning to their best remaining friend, Big Labor, for help. Tuesday's enactment of a $26 billion "jobs bill" was carefully tailored to please public-sector unions, especially those representing teachers. The House majority hopes labor will reciprocate by delivering votes in the fall.
The latest federal cash infusion will help states avoid making tough budgetary decisions that might endanger the obscene salary and pension plans offered to teachers and bureaucrats at the state and local level. Last year, for example, the California Department of Education paid a $118,218 salary for its "home economics education consultant." The effect of thousands of similarly inflated salaries is multiplied through the state's defined-benefit pension plans, which have racked up a whopping $500 billion in unfunded liabilities.
The $26 billion will postpone the day of reckoning, relieving bureaucrats of the need to tighten their belts. Instead, the rest of us will need to put off expenditures and the hiring of new employees in order to pay the looming tax bill for the congressional extravagance. Apparently, a "jobs" bill is legislation that sacrifices private-sector jobs to maintain a robust public sector.
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Fleas had better wise up fast, because they will find they can’t suck any more blood out of a dead dog.
This treason can’t go on much longer, before the reckoning.
The unions won’t be fooled. The socialists can promise them the world, but they can’t deliver. As the saying goes, eventually you run out of other people’s money. Well, we are already out of our money and borrowing at a - to borrow the current buzzword - “unsustainable” rate. So, hussein, Mr. “unsustainable” this and that...you and your policies and payoffs to special interests are unsustainable.
The (public) servant has become master.
Make it stop!
Well said and the dog is just about dead.
As for the fleas in school districts across the country they’d better start trimming the outrageous departments and totally wasteful subjects offered to keep the teachers who actually teach something worthwhile, of course that isn’t going to happen.
The threat of death is a boon to the creativity of those who want to live.
Obama's perpetual bailouts are a death knell to that creativity because they extend the life expectancy of failing and defeated ideas.
Welcome to Obama's zoo...pick a cage and lock the door behind you!
BTW, welcome to Hell!
The Democrat Party - assassinating the private sector one business at a time.
What happens to the teachers when the $26 billion runs out? Is this going to be like unemployment, where every 6 months or so, there is an extension made?
What major publication came out today saying that federal employees make twice the average private sector employee?
Which appears to be the whole thrust of this administration:
Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin would be proud.
That’s what it looks like. With Obama in the WH the NEA and state teachers unions believe they’re entitled.
I don’t know but the piece was posted here, I believe.
Yep, and the public sector unions are proud as well as the head Marxist in Washington.
What happens to the teachers when the $26 billion runs out? Is this going to be like unemployment, where every 6 months or so, there is an extension made?
Yes.
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