The managing editor of Budget & Tax News says no money for education should have been included in the recently signed economic "stimulus" bill.
In
a recent press conference, Education Secretary Arne Duncan warned that
if the economic stimulus bill did not pass, up to 600,000 education
workers could lose their jobs as states face enormous budget
shortfalls. But Steve Stanek of The Heartland Institute argues that the bill should not have included the allotted $87 billion for education.
Stanek argues that the stimulus basically amounts to a payoff for teachers and teachers unions who supported Obama.
"The teachers unions are extremely powerful at the local and state
levels -- and certainly at the federal level," Stanek acknowledges.
"You can look at the money that [the Democratic Party] receives from
the teachers unions and it's enormous! And they are not fans of
meaningful reform in education."
According to an Associated Press
report, $39 billion is going towards K-12 and higher education, $8
billion is to be used in upgrading existing schools, $4 billion will be
used for Head Start and Early Head Start programs, and $25 billion will
be used to bolster No Child Left Behind. Stanek has little positive to
say about George W. Bush's signature education program.
"I
did not like No Child Left Behind. I think it's a huge intrusion of the
federal government into what ought to be local and state issues," he
shares. "It's a way for the federal government to simply grab more
power, and I think another $25 billion is just $25 billion more power
the federal government is going to have over public school education."
Stanek contends that lawmakers in Washington, DC, used the economic
downturn as an excuse to throw more money at education. He notes that
in the last decade the U.S. has only seen a nine-percent increase in
student enrollment, but a 22-percent increase in the number of teachers
and administrators in K-12 education.
You're not just ignorant, you are defiantly ignorant and a member of the the Confederacy of Dunces that makes up the Republican party today. Too bad your party is now dead and irrelevant. But don't worry, you'll always have the glory of the south to fall back upon.
If foreign terrorists had done the damage to the USA that you Republicans have inflicted during the last 8 years they'd be dancing from the rooftops.
Can America overcome your party's fascist, greedy, braindead, Bizarro World trashing of the USA? And can we do it without a single member of the GOP Confederates being part of the change?
YES. WE. WILL.
Posted by: Creative Greenius | February 18, 2009 at 11:29 AM