Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs

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[historyrepeatz]

BACHMANN/RYAN 2012

TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

[historyrepeatz]

What private sector? This is about building and reinforcing a massive civilian socialist voting block, paid for by taxing those older, retired “outdated Americans”.

[petitfour]

Yes

[japaneseghost]

DOES BACHMANN HAVE AN EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE TO RUN FOR PREXY?

[Personal Responsibility]

How many payoffs does the democrat voter base expect to get? It seems like every other day there’s another zillion dollar spending bill for another democrat constituency that has to be passed or the world will stop spinning.

[paul51]

you don't see our so called leaders and ‘public servants’ in washington tightening the belt or scaling back on anything. They will suck you dry before they experience any discomfort or reduction in their grand life styles. Why? because we let them.

[rockinqsranch]

The Constitution. The very basis of our Nation, the supreme law of our Nation is an ignored, trampled, and unenforced legal document at the hands of the Marxist/Leftists.

Everything they are doing is illegal, and that must be our belief as we take back control of what’s left of our country.

They must pay for their deliberate destruction of our system of government, and our economy. They have screwed over not only our Nation, but the entire Free World that depended upon our morality, and our strength.

[Personal Responsibility]

I’m laughing right along side you. I live in New York and have to travel regularly to New Jersey for business. I take the Verrazano Bridge. A bit of history on the bridge:

It opened in 1964. The cost of the bridge was $320,000,000.

The toll on this bridge was put in place to pay for the bridge. That toll is has been $11 (slightly discounted for EZ Pass) for the last year or so. Before that it was $9 discounted for EZ Pass.

Every day, about 180,000 tolls are paid to the Verrazano. That means the Verrazano takes in $1,800,000 every day. That means every 177 days - or just short of six months - the Verrazano bridge pays for itself. Every six months.

Any chance that toll might go away now that it’s raison d’etre is gone? Of course not.

As Reagan noted, government programs are the closest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth. Taxes are the second closest.

[Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo]

The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by... reducing food stamp benefits for the poor.
 
Gee, taking food away from the hungry and giving it to $100,000/yr education bureaucrats - yeah, that's really kind and compassionate.

[traumer]

WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS END....?

[cranked]

another unions payoff....... =.=

[sionnsar]

The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by ... and by reducing food stamp benefits for the poor.

[The Pack Knight]

This bill also forces one state - Texas - to maintain or raise their educational spending or risk losing $830MIL in federal education moneys!

Actually, it's making every state do that. The difference for Texas is that the bill keeps the funding rules for Texas in place through 2013. It only binds the rest of the states for the 2011 budget.

Their reasoning is that Texas "didn't spend enough of their stimulus money" in 2009.

This whole thing is incredible and illustrates once again how the 16th Amendment and the "Hamiltonian" interpretation of the Spending Clause has allowed Congress to use its expanded taxing and spending powers to circumvent the 10th Amendment's prohibition against the federal commandeering of state government. At least two governors, Haley Barbour and Rick Perry, are coming out against it at least.

[MindBender26]

“We doing it fo the chid-rin”

[b4its2late]

Exactly.

[Puddleglum]

Our state VOTED to raise sales taxes temporarily to halt teacher layoffs and/or other education cuts. Why couldn’t other states do the same?

I would not pay a dime in taxes to "avoid teacher layoffs" because there is way too much deadwood in education budgets and laying off teachers is only the government's way of punishing the taxpayers instead of tightening their own belts. How about they trim 99.9% of all those adminstrative positions that add so much quality to public education first?

[berdie]

mmm, mmm, mmm is right.

So let me get this strait. The highest property tax I pay is a city tax. To fund schools in my city. I can vote in or out a school board member that I feel is a goofball.

But now part of my federal taxes will go to fund Blah Blah, (Insert The State here), where I have no voting rights?

mmm, mmm, mmm...no politics involved here. Congratulations NEA...major victory.

[historyrepeatz]

I don’t know but FR is a good start. I’m beating the drum as loud as I can. THUMP, THUMP, THUMP!

[Gabrial]

The whole thing is breaking down. In a Bot-ox induced delirium, Pelosi feared her union base would desert the “Party” if she could not throw another $28,000,000,000.00 of generational taxpayer DEBT to them.

FUNP

FUBO

[KTM rider]

BUT...... its for the children ! whats wrong with you tea partiers ! why do you hate childern ! ! [/sarcasm]