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Now, we all know the stimulus was supposed to prevent those state budget cuts that would endanger obama's friends in the state public sector unions, like teachers. What many of us said has come to fruition. The stimulus has failed on multiple levels, one being that those taxpayer funds only put off the inevitable.
Why is it so hard for dems/libs to understand the massive growth of government, whether state, local or federal is at the heart of the debt/deficits. We can no longer afford to fund this growth.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) --
States have been struggling with huge budget gaps since 2008, but this year could be worse as federal stimulus funds wind down.
"Faced with continued budgetary constraints, school leaders across the nation are forced to consider an unprecedented level of layoffs that would negatively impact economic recovery and deal a devastating blow to public education," said Dan Domenech, executive director of the association, which is pushing Congress to give states additional funds for education.
By some miracle, these "leaders" were able to get by in the past, but instead of cutting back expenses, laying off from the bloated public sector workforce, tightening their belts, they went in the opposite direction. More spending, more hiring.
NJ is a perfect example of bloated rolls of teachers unions. I believe I read where attendance over 5-8 years had only increased by 3%, yet the number of administration/teachers had increased by 30+%. There is no justification for such practices.
What is obama's plan?
You guessed it - let's spend some more money we don't have so he can save his constituency.
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.
"This latest state bailout proposal promotes the same flawed logic as the failed 'stimulus' bill that has contributed to a record $1.5 trillion deficit and left one in every 10 Americans from our workforce out of work," House Minority Leader John Boehner said in a written statement.
"Giving states another $23 billion in federal education money simply throws more money into taxpayer-funded bailouts when we should be discussing why we aren't seeing the results we need from the billions in federal dollars that are already being spent," Boehner said.
For political purposes, obviously.
This is not a viable solution, there will be a continual bailout of the public sector workforce, obama allies and supporters.
The left wing found their guy, someone who can talk out of both sides of their mouth.
The stimulus is working and the economy is booming according to them but now we see higher taxes ( another lie and broken promise ) and budget cuts to vital and important items.
Many of us knew his plan would not work and knew the only way to pay for his scam ideas is to raise taxes and cut important and needy things.
What a shame that we allowed ourselves to be so dupped by a socialist fool.
Good thing there are not many liberal left in America so we can finally get back on track and do things right.
Time for a change, this time their will be real hope and real change instead of the lies and deceit style change and false hope of Obama, the lie a day American hating moron.
Very odd..here in Austin they talk about building a commuter rail from Austin to another suburb and in the next breath talk about cutting staff at the schools because of budget deficits.
I agree. Small business is the backbone of America.
Many talented people lost their jobs and if the opportunity was there (loans, assistance) rather than an unemployment check and a temp "shovel ready" job maybe there would have been a flurry of new small businesses.
Small business tends to keep the money circulating in the community while the Walmarts send the money to HQ and suck the community dry from tax subsidies.
The stimulus could have been done in a different way rather than make government bigger.
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