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Senate Fails to Advance Democratic Jobs Measure for Teachers, First Responders
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Posted on 10/20/2011 7:41:16 PM PDT by Perdogg

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To: Perdogg

Since when do citizens from one state have to pay for teachers, police, and firefighters in other states?? These positions are covered by city, county, and/or state dollars. This should not be responsibility of federal government...

I believe the primary motivation is to get more union money in democratic campaign coffers.


21 posted on 10/20/2011 8:08:42 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: bushwon

I don’t know if anyone else has said it but Michele Bachmann has been pretty vocal about giving education money and control back to the states.

Personally I would go a step further and give it back to the local communities.


22 posted on 10/20/2011 8:11:54 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: cripplecreek

Under the Constitution it’s the states that control education.


23 posted on 10/20/2011 8:14:12 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane
Under the Constitution it’s the states that control education.

Maybe but it sure wasn't that way in my great grandmother's day. The school she went to was physically built by the men in the local community and all costs were taken care of locally. She would have finished school around 1915 or so. In fact she "graduated" when the teacher decided she was done in the 9th grade.

Education was so much better back then. Even in the northwoods of Michigan she learned things like latin.
24 posted on 10/20/2011 8:22:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: ladyjane; cripplecreek

Every time this Jobs Bill is brought up by a Dem they say it will save 300 thousand teacher’s, fire fighter’s and policemen jobs and no one challenges this number by asking them where? Give me some specifics.


25 posted on 10/20/2011 8:30:48 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Perdogg

Are we supposed to start RAPING people now? Joe? Hello...


26 posted on 10/20/2011 8:32:46 PM PDT by BallyBill (WARNING:Taking me serious could cause stress related illness.)
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To: Perdogg

If these jobs bills were really jobs bills, wouldn’t there be funding streams set up to last longer than 11 months? This bill gets Obama through the next election, then these temps are back on the street. With the overhead of Government, he’d be better off to give the same amount of money to a larger group of people and forget the work part (ala unemployment). Obamski is not interested if these jobs are actually productive jobs. He only cares that they are union jobs so he gets the kickback for his campaign, which makes them better than unemployment because of the kickback.


27 posted on 10/20/2011 8:35:58 PM PDT by OrioleFan
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To: Perdogg

It’s the DNC 2012 campaign money bill...the unions will keep some and pass the rest of our money back to the Democrats for the coming elections.


28 posted on 10/20/2011 8:38:32 PM PDT by blam
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To: Perdogg

I am sick of hearing about stupid teachers, as if they are saints or something. Most of them (in the blue states) are overpaid union hacks who get the easiest college degrees in existence, and then indoctrinate kids with liberal bullshit. Our education system is made WORSE when you hire more of these mind-numbed robots for the welfare state. FIRE MORE TEACHERS!


29 posted on 10/20/2011 8:41:36 PM PDT by montag813
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To: cripplecreek

No question, the classrooms around 1915 really educated the students. Not even close now.

The point I was trying to make is that under the Constitution the states are responsible for education, not the federal government. The government usurped the rights of the states ]with the Department of Education, the intrusion into education with billions of dollars and their love affair with the teachers unions.


30 posted on 10/20/2011 8:42:31 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: BallyBill

Joe here. Well, maybe not the “Joe” you were wanting to hear from but a “Joe” nonetheless.

The answer to your question is Yes.

I mean, come on, how else are we going to get all of these Union prop-up bills passed floating the bill for all of the unionized police and firefighters if you aren’t out there raping and stealing and burning things to the ground? Work with me here, okay?

If a few people have to get raped, or robbed, or have their house burned down in order to help the POTUS that’s just the cost of doing business, right?


31 posted on 10/20/2011 8:42:51 PM PDT by JoenTX (?)
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To: Perdogg

Crime is DOWN. WTF do we need more “first responders” for?


32 posted on 10/20/2011 8:44:37 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Jim Robinson

Did they change the clause in the constitution which requires all revenue and spending bills to originate in the house?


33 posted on 10/20/2011 8:45:49 PM PDT by anoldafvet (Sarah, you broke a lot of our hearts but we still love you.)
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To: blam

Exactly. This is RICO-level money laundering.

The demoncrats want to send obscene amounts of money to the poor, decimated ranks of public workers unions. Most of that will be contributed back to the demoncrats as campaign contributions. Voila! The taxpayers fund the demoncrat party!

Did you know that there are 160,000 more public workers now than two years ago? And Dingy Harry says that they are the ones in trouble?

Things are getting closer to the breaking point every day.


34 posted on 10/20/2011 8:47:11 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: tiki

And probably hundreds of really cute puppies will die in those fires, and thousands more puppies will be horribly burned and disfigured in those fires; and all because the Republicans won’t vote to fund firefighters in the latest bailout scam.

Republicans hate puppies.


35 posted on 10/20/2011 8:54:22 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
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To: ladyjane

10th Amendment!


36 posted on 10/20/2011 9:01:02 PM PDT by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: onemiddleamerican
Duh.

Every time a union member gets denied a raise in benefits
a kitten dies.

37 posted on 10/20/2011 9:01:10 PM PDT by glock rocks (Wait, what? Channel surfing without a remote since 2001)
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To: Perdogg

the no-more-rape bill failed??!!!


38 posted on 10/20/2011 9:09:10 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: SueRae

Remember the Good Old Days? Back when Obama, Biden, and the media tried to fool you into believing they were about creating real jobs and economic growth? Now they admit it is about public employees, dare I say SERVANTS? I’m old enough to remember when WE decided how many should be employed. Not the other way around!


39 posted on 10/20/2011 9:10:41 PM PDT by CT
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To: montag813

To generate more revenue for the state.


40 posted on 10/20/2011 9:12:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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