Stimuwhat?!

Senate approves jobs bill to stop teacher layoffs

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 26 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Congress is moving rapidly just weeks before the start of the school year to speed billions of dollars in emergency education aid to states in hopes of reversing the layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers.

Some $10 billion in aid to school districts is set to flow after a 61-39 Senate vote Thursday — to be followed quickly by a House vote next week — in hopes that it will come in time for many school districts to reconsider teacher layoffs.

Thursday's vote was a hard-earned but partial victory for Democrats and President Barack Obama. Advocates said it could save the jobs of up to 300,000 teachers, police and other public workers.


BT comment: While more than half of the almost $800 billion allocated by the Obama regime for economic stimulus sits idle(that's our money), these thieves have picked another $26 billion from the public's pockets to "save" public sector jobs. Jobs that were supposedly going to be saved by the money in the stimulus package. I don't know which is more insatiable. Their lust for power or their unappeasable greed. And if you oppose any additional confiscation of your hard earned money for pet projects or special interests you are labeled a hater. I for one am tired of being robbed in broad daylight with the stroke of a pen and then being told that I am a heartless fiend.
I want to ask where the rest of the stimulus money is and when or how it will be spent. But I am pretty sure that I already know the answer. I believe it is a re-election slush fund for Obama and the Democrats that will flow in torrents to buy and keep power. Sure, I could be wrong. Either way, the money will be misallocated and still the question looms. Why is not being spent now for the very things it was originally intended and promised to avert by Obama?