Awesome: Another $23 Billion of Your Money to be Redistributed to the Teachers' Unions
Democrats in Congress and the President are doing their best to undermine the financial system before the November midterms. Unsatisfied with transferring $60 billion (abrogating contract law along the way) with payoffs to the UAW... not content with a $800 billion dollar "Stimulus" package that rewarded the AFL-CIO and the SEIU... and not quenched with jamming a massive new entitlement program down Americans' throats in the midst of unprecedented deficits... they are now trying to take $23 billion more of the next generation's money and Fed-Ex it to the Teachers' Unions.
A post on The White House blog (via ABC News) late Wednesday evening announced that it was time for "bold action" to save teachers' jobs.
Specifically, Arne Duncan, Obama's education secretary wrote the following to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid:
We applaud Chairmen Harkin, Miller and Obey for crafting legislation in direct response to these challenges. S. 3206, the Keep Our Educators Working Act, H.R. 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act, and H.R. 4812, the Local Jobs for America Act, each call for $23 billion in emergency support to preserve education jobs modeled after the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF) established in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This funding would keep teachers in the classroom while helping to sustain meaningful and necessary reforms in public education across the country.
We urge Congress to include this funding in the supplemental appropriations bills soon to be considered. We also urge Congress to include $2 billion in support to localities for police and firefighters to ensure that our communities remain safe, as well as $1 billion in funds for the Child Care and Development Block Grant to preserve early childhood education jobs and ensure that our youngest children do not lose the supports and services critical to their learning and overall well-being.
Gee, that seems responsible, what with all of the spare money we've got.
It's hard to conceive of a more partisan and dangerous government than our current set of leaders at the federal level.
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