Posted on 05/26/2010 10:30:14 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama administration calls for emergency education spending Posted: May 26th, 2010 01:07 PM ET
From CNN Radio's Dick Uliano Arne Duncan is calling for emergency education spending. Arne Duncan is calling for emergency education spending.
Washington (CNN) - Education Secretary Arne Duncan says President Obama "absolutely supports" a congressional proposal for $23 billion in emergency education spending in order to stave off teacher layoffs and cancellation of summer classes.
Duncan told CNN Wednesday that the emergency spending request is needed to head off "an education catastrophe, " in which as many as 300-thousand teachers across the country could be laid off.
Duncan also said that without the extra spending, some school districts will be forced to eliminate summer school and after-school programs.
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When are PEOPLE going to get a CLUE.....
My immediate thought as well.
Hurry, hurry, hurry!!!!! /s
I never realized that teachers were federal employees ...
after we pass it, you can read it and find out whats inside it
I guess he’s going to pay for all the layoffs coming this summer in industry around the country.
That’s funny. Locally the schools are half empty, and isn’t summer right around the corner? The issue here is how many schools we have to close for lack of students. Appears all the illegals have left town.
Wait a tick!!
Are not school budgets a local issue? Would this not pull all control of local school out of the local community?
Seems to me this is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
More money for....Chicken Emergency, Rock Emergency, Cloud Emergency, Grass Emergency.....
Yet another “emergency”? What knives in the back will be contained in this “emergency” legislation?
DAMMIT!
When are these vermin going to stop squandering our money?
Teachers need to take pay cuts, have their pensions reduced and pay a bigger slice for their pensions and healthcare. Heck even the profligate Greeks get that.
We must do it NOW, with no questions asked, or the country’s education system will collapse by the end of the month!
Will somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!!!!
/s
we are the world....we are the children...we are the ones YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!
Everything is now an “emergency” so Democrats can ignore Pay-Go.
When repubs take over next year, the media will crucify them for spending that ignores it.
“emergency”? Education? Are all the children’s books on fire?
No, but the instruction pamphlet on how to open the book is.
If Republicans take control of Congress this November, they are going to have a whole lot of this to deal with once the stimulus runs out.
The cost of “socialism”
Current European tax rates:
United Kingdom
Income Tax: 50%
VAT: 17.5% TOTAL: 67.5%
Germany
Income Tax: 45%
VAT: 19% TOTAL: 64%
France
Income Tax: 40%
VAT: 19.6% TOTAL: 59.6%
Greece
Income Tax: 40%
VAT: 25% TOTAL: 65%
Spain
Income Tax: 45%
VAT: 16% TOTAL: 61%
Portugal
Income Tax: 42%
VAT: 20% TOTAL: 62%
Sweden
Income Tax: 55%
VAT: 25% TOTAL: 80%
Norway
Income Tax: 54.3%
VAT: 25% TOTAL: 79.3%
Netherlands
Income Tax: 52%
VAT: 19% TOTAL: 71%
Denmark
Income Tax: 58%
VAT: 25% TOTAL: 83%
Finland
Income Tax: 53%
VAT: 22% TOTAL: 75%
If you’ve started to wonder what the real costs of “socialism” are going to be, once the full program in these United States hits your wallet, take a look at the table. As you digest these mind-boggling figures, keep in mind that in spite of these astronomical tax rates, these countries are still not financing their social welfare programs exclusively from tax revenues! They are deeply mired in public debt of gargantuan proportions. Greece has reached the point where its debt is so huge it is in imminent danger ofdefaulting. That is the reason the European economic community has intervened to bail them out. If you’re following the financial news, you know Spain and Portugal are right behind Greece.
The United States is now heading right down the same path. The “VAT” tax in the table is the national sales tax that Europeans pay. Stay tuned because that is exactly what you can expect to see the administration proposing after the fall elections. The initial percentage in the United States isn’t going to be anywhere near the outrageous numbers you now see in Europe. Guess what, the current outrageous numbers in Europe didn’t start out as outrageous either. They started out as miniscule—right around the 1% or 2% where they will start out in the United States. Magically however, they ran up over the years to where they are now. Expect the same thing here.
It’s time to rethink the ‘American Dream’ idea: It is the notion that with hard work and perseverance, anybody can get ahead economically here. Do you think that can ever happen with tax rates between 60% and 80%? Think again. With the government taking that percentage of your money, your life will be exactly like life in Europe. You will never be able to buy a home. You will never buy a car. You will never send your children to college. Let’s not shuffle the battle cry of the socialists under the rug either. It’s always the same cry. “Equalize” income. “Spread the wealth” to the “poor” (whoever they are). “Level” the economic playing field. Accomplish that and everything will be rosy.
It’s time to take a really hard look at reality. Greece is a perfect example. Despite the “socialism” system that has ruled this country for decades, with a 65% tax rate, they are drowning in public debt, would have defaulted without hundreds of billions in bailout money, and still. . .20% of their population lives in “poverty.” What has all that “socialism” money bought, besides ultimate power for the politicians running the show? Do you think these people are “free”? They’re not. They are slaves to their economic “system.”
We are at a tipping point in America. We all know it. Turn this around right now or your grandchildren will be massing in the streets of this once-great country, just as the people of Greece now are. Economic slavery is slavery, just the same. Carefully and deeply consider what it takes to throw off the yoke of slavery, once it takes hold and settles over your neck.
Duncan also said that without the extra spending, some school districts will be forced to eliminate summer school and after-school programs.
SO DO IT ALREADY! GET RID OF THE DEADWEIGHT TEACHERS TOO!
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