Thread: Obama signs jobs bill right B4 election

Originally Posted by johnny larue

Some pretty ignorant posts here. Nothing unusual. Political payoffs for political support. Should be obvious to even the drunks on here.

You can tell that to the tens of thousands of teachers who will not be terminated this year, their families, and the hundreds of thousands of students they teach.

Originally Posted by Hamster

You can tell that to the tens of thousands of teachers who will not be terminated this year, their families, and the hundreds of thousands of students they teach, and the parents of those students.

I certainly would - and do. You are obviously convinced that govt bureaucrats are the most important people in the world. I disagree. You also don't know a thing about govt funding and budgets.

Money is fungible. Allocations to states for teacher jobs can easily be used for whatever purpose the state decided. Standard govt sucker play.

Originally Posted by Arnold!

I hope the Demos will get spanked in these coming elections.

Always heartwarming to see that people are still capable of objective analysis.

Originally Posted by Arnold!

Obama signs jobs bill right B4 election This is really getting ridiculous. How many stimuli and jobs bills has there been? An election is less than 12 weeks away. Federal money to pay the state's teachers. Another temporary band-aid on a bullet wound. I hope the Demos will get spanked in these coming elections.

Arnold! FYI "ajarn" means teacher. Maybe you should head back to TD with your tail between your legs. A teacher supports employment for teachers internationally. We don't need a red coat Austrian immigrant telling us that this bill is just politics. I'm sure the governator supports it anyway.

I find it strangely ironic that people who work or have worked as TEACHERS making more than their Thai counterparts (and possibly having less experience than them) would have issues with the US government dishing out more money to schools.

Seriously...wouldn't it be nice if our taxes actually went to something that IMPROVES society?

Call me an idealist, but I think there's much worse things to criticize Obama about than this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/op...09krugman.html

But Washington is providing only a trickle of help, and even that grudgingly. We must place priority on reducing the deficit, say Republicans and “centrist” Democrats. And then, virtually in the next breath, they declare that we must preserve tax cuts for the very affluent, at a budget cost of $700 billion over the next decade.
In effect, a large part of our political class is showing its priorities: given the choice between asking the richest 2 percent or so of Americans to go back to paying the tax rates they paid during the Clinton-era boom, or allowing the nation’s foundations to crumble — literally in the case of roads, figuratively in the case of education — they’re choosing the latter.
It’s a disastrous choice in both the short run and the long run.

Originally Posted by panhunger

asking the richest 2 percent or so of Americans to go back to paying the tax rates they paid during the Clinton-era boom, or allowing the nation’s foundations to crumble — literally in the case of roads, figuratively in the case of education — they’re choosing the latter.

So America needs to produce a certain number of Opra Winfreys and Donald Trumps in order for American children to have good education, and roads repaired?

What a crock of shit.