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"President Obama spun a work of creative nonfiction yesterday in his latest pitch for his jobs plan, fudging the facts of a Boston schoolteacher’s White House visit as he cast the man as a poster boy for the hot-button bill.
“I had a chance to meet a young man named Robert Baroz,” the president said at a midday news conference. “He’s got two decades of teaching experience. He’s got a master’s degree. He’s got an outstanding track record of helping his students make huge gains in reading and writing. In the last few years, he’s received three pink slips because of budget cuts. Why wouldn’t we want to pass a bill that puts somebody like Robert back in the classroom teaching our kids?”
Two problems: Obama never met Baroz. And Baroz remains happily employed."
Tale of Hub teacher’s job struggle stretches truth - BostonHerald.com (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1371584 - broken link)
With millions of Americans out of a job, don't you think the President could meet ONE of them and actually use ONE unemployed person as his example ??????? Does he HAVE TO LIE ????? and mislead people just to make a point?
On top of that teachers are paid by the state and are NOT a fed responsibility. Why should my fed tax dollars go to a state that can't keep its financial house in order?
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