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Voters' focus on spending forced Democrats to make a telling choice this week -- between public unions and folks on food stamps.
Guess who they picked? Yup: To fund another bailout -- $26 billion to save teaching and other government jobs -- Dems cut money meant to feed the poor. President Obama inked the bill Tuesday -- to great cheers (natch) from teachers.
True, food-stamp spending will still go up, but not by as much. Dems also hiked taxes again, by $10 billion. Yet the Congressional Budget Office says even that isn't enough: The measure will bloat the deficit another $13 billion over 10 years, using "pay as you go" accounting.
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And if you do some research, they really didn't save anything.
They'd like you to think millions of kids would have returned to school to empty classrooms with no teachers and that's just not the case.
But that's ok..believe what you want or what they tell you.
I'm not getting this one. Is it a pro-Obama thread as he chose to support our hard working teachers to give our children a quality education over food stamps, or a botched right wing attempt at slamming Obama?
I'm not getting this one. Is it a pro-Obama thread as he chose to support our hard working teachers to give our children a quality education over food stamps, or a botched right wing attempt at slamming Obama?
I'm not getting this one. Is it a pro-Obama thread as he chose to support our hard working teachers to give our children a quality education over food stamps, or a botched right wing attempt at slamming Obama?
This latest bailout of the teacher's union has nothing to do with teaching the kiddies and everything to do with partisan, save-my-butt politics.
They CUT the food stamp program for the poor so they could bailout teacher.
"J'adore les USA." That's wonderful, Renaud. But I suspect you don't know a whole lot about the New York Post--that being Rupert Murdoch's baby. If you were looking for objectivity, you were looking in the wrong place.
"J'adore les USA." That's wonderful, Renaud. But I suspect you don't know a whole lot about the New York Post--that being Rupert Murdoch's baby. If you were looking for objectivity, you were looking in the wrong place.
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I find articles on RealClearPolitics, you have articles from liberals, conservatives, moderates..It's pretty instructive to have all points of view
Honestly I'm not really a fan of public unions, because they want more money for teachers pays and pensions, but this money is from the taxpayers, teachers don't create jobs.
I would prefer this money go to small businesses, via smaller corporate taxes.
Our Government is pro union. The same unions that bankrupt economies, big and small. Union cuts & regulations are a good way to cut the waste that must be cut.
Cutting ties with unions, is the way to weed out the loafers, and find those with actual talent and desire to be the best. It will also spark the small business, because those that don't like how the boss is treating them, or their pay and benefits, will be opening competing businesses. Up to them to succeed or fail.
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