Another Day, Another Bailout Request
The “Recovery Act” stimulus sham gave $100 billion to school districts in part to allegedly “save teachers jobs,” but a year later the stimulus has worked so well that they’re going back to the trough for more:
Despite President Obama’s pledge for honest budgeting and billions of dollars in stimulus money spent to save teachers’ jobs, the Education Department is asking for off-the-books emergency funding to keep local districts from laying off school teachers next school year.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent Democratic lawmakers a request Thursday to pass a $26 billion emergency supplemental to fund up to 300,000 teachers’ jobs that he says will otherwise be lost in the fall.
Administration officials want to add the teacher funding to a $60 billion supplemental request sent to Congress to pay for ongoing military operations in Afghanistan as well as Haiti relief and money for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Wow, it’s almost as if the original amount didn’t end up where they said it was going. Go figure.
“The Recovery Act is working!” — yet somehow the thirst of the money hole remains unquenched.
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By using that wording, they don’t have to do a “Pay-as-you-go” justification of where the funds are coming from.
More money from actual taxpayer’s going down the black hole.
When will it ever end … ???
Let the local districts solve the problem, not the FED.
Absolutely! Education should be, must be a local issue.
November 2010.
And not only will it end in 2010, the course
willMUST be reversed.Obama: “Hello, Treasury? Print up a few more million, will ya? I need it by Friday. Boy, I love this job.”
soon, but not soon enough, nor in a way we’d like it to end I’m sure.
IMO something that needs to be changed is this crap about “tying to” or “adding to” why not separate the bills and stop the bs putting bad money requests with the good…STOP IT! If it can’t stand on it’s own. it’s a no go.
If this emergency supplemental is needed to avoiding laying off 300,000 teachears, what happens next year and the year after and so on, when these teachers want to be paid going forward?
I would say that the Government spends like a Drunken sailor, but drunken sailors sober up eventually.
Well these teachers at least have job at taxpayers expense. Millions of other American’s are not employed. I don’t know about y’all but I sick to death of supporting unions, whatever they are. Just look at what greece is doing now, riots, fires, deaths and all because of unions.
It is coming here to America people, take my word for it. The seiu, auto workers, etc. have this bho by the, you know my meaning.
L
Obama is a self-described B+ president… and that’s grading on the curve. He needs to take a remedial budgeting course.
26 billion dollars for 300,000 jobs. That’s $ 86,666.67 per job. The average teacher’s salary is around $ 50,000. $ 36,666.67 cannot represent benefits. The money is going for more than teachers’ salaries.
No surprise here in WA ST. A local (Seattle) station had a story yesterday about a School Superintedent that works part time (2 days a week) to supervise 3 teachers and 32 students….His salary $115,000…
Now you can see why they want more of our cash.
I’m beinning to despise teachers. They are nothing but union drones inflated with self importance yet cannot seem to do the job they were paid for or trained for. In their own minds, I’m sure they consider themselves “heros” but they are in fact one of the heaviest links in the anchor chain that is dragging this country down.
*It has to stop, it will stop, beginning Nov. 2010; Right thinking Americans will not rest until this spending insanity is not just stopped, but reversed, as Christie is doing in New Jersey.
*Nothing against individual teachers, but the NEA and all their state affiliates are enemies of the people, as they consume funds way beyond inflationary levels, protect mediocrity, and are dumbing down an entire generation with their curriculum of the hoax that is man-made global warming, homosexuality, try it, you’ll like it, and all the other bovine scatology they peddle these days; Don’t fund the DoE, dismantle it and privatize education at all levels!
Unfortunately, the union has decided that politics and power, are more important than education. The result is dumbed-down kids, poor teachers, poor schools overall, and rich union leaders. I feel sorry for the “real teachers” that struggle everyday to cope with unruly students and principals who can’t lead.
In the apparently distant past, education was connected to the ability to get a job. Today, it is an end in itself and institutions of higher education act more like diploma or class by class mills than anything connected to the real world.
Educated children, AKA, adults were expected to enter the work force after being educated and work their way up whatever job chain they could get. Now, with the likes of the socialists in power, they are expected to live off their parents or family members until “the right thing comes along”.
It is getting increasingly obvious that a college education postpones the transition to adulthood rather than empowering it.
The teachers should be fired. There are too many that never should have been teachers in the first place. The NEA has protected incompetence for too long. I want my tax money back for funding the public school propaganda machines that our schools have become. Dear Arnie won’t make things any better either. Bho doesn’t really care about the teachers other than to pander for their votes and to get money from their unions.
Yea, the Recovery Act workd . . .
Geez, excuse me.
Yea, the Recovery Act worked . . .
But, How long will it take us and our children to pay for it?
Maybe if Congress hadn’t taken $26 billion from the states they would have enough money to pay their teachers without asking the feds to give the money back to the states…
For years we’ve heard how underpaid and overworked teachers are. the same with police and firefighters. Now there’s this cult of public service that we’re all supposed to buy into.
Traveler49 said it best with this:
“union drones inflated with self importance”.
Not to throw another conspiracy theory into the ring buuuuuuuuuut:
Has anyone explored the angle that the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf is really just the opening shot by the British government (using British Petroleum by proxy) as paybacks for the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812?
things to make you go hmmmmm
RabbidSquirrel – my own hmmmm, would we be off the chart thinking that our fearless leader would love try to nationalize BP/Halliburton, etc.. Queen Mum might think that an act of war if anybody has designs on BP. Or, is this FL’s (fearless leader) lame attempt to get back at V.P. Cheney?
FL is sure getting his mad on these days.
Now is this gonna be on top of the just added 350 million that the LOCAL school board ‘bond’ that we vote on in the California June primary?
(Before you say it is just a ‘bond’, we already passed a 30 year bond issue for the exact same thing a couple of years ago. This is all about shuffling funds and paying off teacher unions – they gonna need the extra cash to run insane numbers of ads promoting even more tax increases this fall!)
The California teachers unions are corrupt beyond description. ALL TEACHER salaries in Cal are too high, and the horribly corrupt unions would not be happy with ALL of the money!
Meanwhile the people that jammed this measure onto the ballot at the last minute think they are going to get that bond for 2%! At least, that is the percentage they use in projecting the annual property tax increases to cover those bonds. Cal muni bonds are not selling at 2% and have not in DECADES!
from powerline:
As a former Drunken Sailor, I at least used My Own money and not those of the tax payers to pay for myy excesses.
GSP
Happy Armed Forces Day to my fellow vets and active duty buds!
I thought it to be an amazing coincidence that right after “Drill, baby, drill” by our president, we have a big oil spill in the Gulf. The president then suspended his plan. He’s already after raising our gas prices, to “punish” the oil companies. I’ve been very suspicious.
My sister is an accountant for a large public service union. It has lost about 5% of its membership this year. The primary concern of the union appears to be the reduced dues and reduced ability to fund Democratic candidates, not the job losses for its membership.
Since 100 billion didn’t save teaching jobs and 26 billion more is needed and the school year isn’t even out, my question is – what is a teaching job?
The name would imply a person at the head of a classroom instructing young students. But in this regime, where words only mean what they say they mean, perhaps “teaching job” is a euphemism.
In one sense, anyone could be a “teacher” which is significantly different from “qualified teacher” and worlds apart from “licensed teacher.” I am suspicious that the “teacher” Obama has in mind is something a lot closer to what people used to call community organizers, activists, and unemployed artists.
If there really are 300,000 teachers at risk because of record high local property taxes just don’t cut it any more, I would be shocked. If all the money all levels of government collects for “schools” was spent on schools, teachers would be paid like rock stars. Since we know that is not the case, the money is going somewhere else.