Obama: We Cannot Cut Back Spending On Job Creation
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"I want everybody to pay attention. Even as we find ways to cut spending we cannot cut back on job creating investments like education. We cannot cut back on the very investments that will help our economy grow and our nation compete and make sure these young people succeed," President Obama told an audience at a technology school in Boston today.
"There is nothing responsible about that, there is nothing responsible about cutting back our investment in these young people!" Obama added.
Can you please explain why it is that public schools continue to fail, when we spend more per student then private schools? The answer isn't more money. The answer is providing competition and schools that have been run by the government are absolute failures.
These teachers should be ashamed but, they have no shame, they want MORE money and MORE benefits, for LESS work and LESS performance. Yet, the left in this country wants to continue to reward failures and punish people who are successful. So, what's the point of being successful when you can just be a loser and be touted in the media as a hero?
A Saturday vote is in the works, as Democrats push for a last minute, ditch effort, to pass $1.1 trillion in spending before the beginning of the year, when they lose their power.
Senate Republicans blasted the bill as a crude Democratic attempt to push through funding for pet projects known as earmarks before the new year, when Republicans will wield greater clout in Washington.
Republicans also objected to the $8.3 billion worth of pet spending projects tucked into the bill, even though they personally requested many of the earmarks. Many voters view earmarks as a prime example of wasteful government spending, and Republicans vowed to renounce them after winning big in the Nov. 2 congressional elections.
"We will reject any earmarks requested by us or anyone else because that's what the American people have said they want," said Republican Senator John Cornyn.
These people aren't fooling anyone. The bill will most likely pass. They all just want to put on a dog and pony show.
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1,924-page bill includes $1.1 trillion is spending, the democrats are ready to push through.
The package drew a swift rebuke from Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee.
"The attempt by Democrat leadership to rush through a nearly 2,000-page spending bill in the final days of the lame-duck session ignores the clear will expressed by the voters this past election," Thune said in a statement. "This bill is loaded up with pork projects and should not get a vote. Congress should listen to the American people and stop this reckless spending.”
Despite the earmarks in the bill, it looks like most the Republicans have no problem voting for the bill.
Isn't that the problem in this country? Is there anyone in government that is fiscal?
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If you thought Obama was done spending your tax money to help stimulate the economy because, it worked so well last time, you were wrong. This time, Obama is proposing spending for $50 billion to be allotted for infrastructure. This is different, of course, from the infrastructure money that came from the $814 billion stimulus that was passed last year, which was focused more on "short-term." This money is for the "long haul.'
Right.
All that money spent and the unemployment rate is still near 10 percent.
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