Thread: $23 billion to bail out teachers or teacher's unions?

$23 billion to bail out teachers or teacher's unions?

By The Scribe May 24, 2010 8:30 AM

My question is, "Who is going to bailout the American taxpayer?" Remember, only slightly more than half actually pay taxes. How many more bailouts can the American taxpayer finance?

From Fox News... http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010 ... r-bailout/

Education Secretary Arne Duncan is asking lawmakers to put aside "politics and ideology" as they consider a request for $23 billion in "emergency" funding for public schools - a measure Republicans reject as a massive federal bailout for the teachers' unions.

Arne Duncan has ramped up to super-hysteria mode. Save the teachers! Save the teachers! After all, how will the unions collect enough dues to sway elections if they lose all those teachers.

"This is a bipartisan issue -- politics and ideology, around education, we have to put to the side," Duncan said during an appearance on "Fox and Friends" on May 21. "I'm very worried, very worried about anywhere between 100,000 and 300,000 teachers being laid off this year. We have school districts -- due to the horrendous budget times, conditions they're facing -- looking to eliminate summer school this summer, eliminating after-school and extracurricular activities, going to four-day weeks, not five-day school weeks...None of this is good for children. None of this is good for education. None of this is good for the economy. So we are urging Congress to move with a real sense of urgency to pass this legislation."

Remember when Obama said that all spending increases had to be paid for?

More from the Fox News article...

Many Republicans oppose the measure, citing previous federal outlays for education, the size of the federal deficit, and the fact that the bill forces no spending cuts elsewhere in order to pay for itself.

"Fundamentally, what you're seeing is the failure of the stimulus," Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee, told Fox News. "What we're looking at here in Michigan is 14 percent unemployment; nationally, we're looking at 9.9 percent. We've seen a spike in jobless claims -- all of which was supposed to have been prevented by the trillion dollars this administration already spent to 'create or save' jobs.

http://www.gopusa.com/fresh-ink/2010/05 ... unions.php

All because the teachers' union supported Obama.