Obama Urges House Passage of Teacher Jobs Bill, Criticizes Republican Resistance

cjjanis and jblack: Have either of you taken even a rudimentary economics class? Govt. stimulus in the public sector is WORTHLESS. There is no synergy whatsoever to personnel investments made for political reasons. On what basis have you determined these layoffs are not completely justified, either for fiscal reasons or simply overstaffing. Govt. employment is up 8% since this recession hit. This monstrosity that has perpetuated and fed itself off the tax revenues produced in the private sector is in the last throes of irrelevance. Look at New Jersey, that is the future.

gee, I wonder what the unions will spend this multi-billion dollar payoff on this time. New offices? New cars? More executive raises?

This is just more welfare for govt. employees. The vast majority of the stimulus was nothing more than pay-offs to the govt. unions and profligate states. This administration knows NOTHING about the private sector and the real economic growth that lifts ALL of the economy. One of Obama's initial proclamations to young people urged them to forego private sector employment to work in the wasteland of government. This tells you all you need to know about the current 5 year plan the Democrats are pushing. November will will chop off the last year.

Personally I don't want my tax dollars going to bail out states. If we start doing this the states will never become responsible in their spending. They need to cut employees anyway so this (not passing this bill) will get them started.
I hate to think I'm bailing out California.

I spent 18 years of my working career as a manager in a union environment. I stated then and it's even more accurate now, in my opinion, that..."never before have so many been paid so much for doing so little" and I included myself in that statement.

Unions originally were good for the worker. Then greed took over and American labor forced the off-shore out-sourcing of America's jobs due to the necessity of earning an institutional profit order to remain operational. I never understood why anyone would, or should, pay any entity for the right to work, but that's just my opinion.

LEW

Why not take this money from the leftover job stimulus bill that did nothing. Or better yet, how about cutting back on superintendents salaries and getting rid of unnessary administrators? No, let's just keep adding to the deficit and pay back the obligation to the big unions. Again, more rewarding by this administration for poor decision making.

The bill is not the problem. What other bills are trying to get a free ride? What pork is attached? How is it being funded stimulus money or more print and spend? This is what causes people to vote no. It is call irresponsible government!

Sometimes layoffs are necessary to get back on track. Pumping money into a pit is not going to solve our problems. Keep the tax cuts, encourage business by assuring them that they will not be devastated by cap & trade or so called "health care reform", and jobs will come back and the taxes that they bring will heal us.