Late Saturday night President Barack Obama sent
a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate
urging them to approve a tax and spending bill
currently being debated in the Senate that already
would add $80 billion to our nation's budget deficit.
But coming off of last year's $862 billion stimulus,
President Obama is not happy with just another $80
billion in debt for this year.
He also requested another $50 billion in deficit
spending earmarked for bailing-out state and local
governments.
Without this "emergency" money, the President claims
thousands of government union jobs would be lost.
But even among his own party, the President faces
an uphill climb.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told The
Washington Post: "I think there is spending fatigue."
"Bailout fatigue" is more like it. And the President's
envisioned spending spree is full of both.
The Government Union Bailout :
$23 billion of the President's additional $50 billion
in spending would supposedly go to keep teachers
in the classroom.
This new spending would be in addition to the nearly
$100 billion appropriated to the Department of
Education by the President's $862 billion stimulus bill,
of which $34.7 billion in education funds remains unspent.
Meanwhile, over the past decade student enrollment
has increased only 6% while the number of teachers
in the classroom has risen 15.8%.
The Medicaid Bailout :
$25 billion of the President's latest spending spree
is set to bail-out state Medicaid programs.
This would be the fourth time this decade that Congress
has bailed-out state Medicaid programs.
The cycle is all too familiar. Between 1990 and 2007,
Medicaid spending more than quadrupled from $69
billion to $316 billion.
Because of these constant bailouts, states have avoided
dealing with their mismanagement of the program.
More money from Washington will guarantee one thing :
States will continue to spend far in excess of what
they can afford, and Congress will treat the federal
taxpayers like an ATM machine to cover the shortfalls.
The Obamacare Bailout :
The President's signature legislative accomplishment
is just barely three months old, but it already is in need
of a $400 billion bailout.
Last week Gallup reported that "Federal government
debt" was the issue that most threatened the future
well-being of the United States.
Our nation's record deficits are largely driven by the
record spending increases of the last decade and the
last year in particular.
There is a way out
of this deficit nightmare : stop spending
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/06/14/morning-bell-the-government-bailouts-must-end/
We have reached a potential turning point in the
relationship of public employee unions and the
electorate they ostensibly serve.
Over the past year, there has been a steady
drumbeat of criticism focused on public unions
and the havoc they have wrought on our public
finances.
Governments -- city, country, state,
and federal -- are drowning in red ink Our taxes
are flowing to ever-voracious government workers
(whose own ranks are growing steadily while the
private payrolls shrink) ;
They are better compensated than private workers
in comparable positions.
Public employee unions will spend millions to try
to defeat measures to rein in their bloated salaries
and pension benefits.
They threaten even longer lines at government
offices (and fewer of them), shorter hours at
libraries, park districts cutting programs, and
fewer policeman and firefighters.
The list goes on and on of the plagues that will
hit us if we dare take on public unions.
They never address high salaries,
excessive days off, sick days being
used because government employees
are sick of work, or pensions being used
to buy piña coladas in Pensacola.
Government unions spend vast sums on this
propaganda (and on lobbyists and political
campaigns to elect politicians to put in their
pockets), and the exact amount is now
almost unknowable.
Barack Obama, in the first few days of his
presidency, issued an executive order shielding
unions from disclosure rules requiring them to
report how they spend union dues.
But facts can be marshaled
that put the blame where it belongs.
Public-sector unions
and state debt go hand in hand ;
States with the highest per capita debt
have the strongest public-sector unions,
who have cut sweetheart deals with politicians.
We should highlight
how these unions have diminished our futures.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/how_to_fight_back_against_publ.html
The Commie Saboteurs Cloakroom
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The Communist Hell Care Coups
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The Commie Energy and Environment Coups
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The Commie Coups Against
Domestic Free Enterprise
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Opposing The Commie
Coup Against The U.S.A.
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Exposing The Enemies
Of Domestic Free Enterprise
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Expose Oppose Protest Resist Defy & Defeat :
The Anti Constitutional Anti Republic
Anti Capitalistic Unconstitutional Treasonous
Criminal Satanic Commie Hell Care Whores
& Satanic Globalist Commie Liberal Progressive
Stateist Corporate Unionist Ponzi Schemes,
Lies, Liars, Frauds & Saboteurs
