1. Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

Democrats Cut Food Stamps to Payoff Teachers Union

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by carpro, Aug 11, 2010.

Top Posters
  1. carpro

    carpro Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Oct 14, 2004
    Messages:
    25,823
    Likes Received:
    1,167
    Faith:
    Baptist
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...cy-groups-blast-cuts-food-stamps-fund-m-jobs/

    Democrats, Advocacy Groups Blast Cuts to Food Stamps to Fund $26B Aid Bill
    Published August 11, 2010
    | FoxNews.com

    Some Democrats are upset and advocacy groups are outraged over the raiding of the food-stamp cupboard to fund a state-aid bailout that some call a gift to teachers and government union workers.

    House members convened Tuesday and passed the multibillion-dollar bailout bill for cash-strapped states that provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins, keeping more than 160,000 teachers on the job, the Obama administration says.

    But the bill also requires that $12 billion be stripped from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, to help fund the new bill,
     
    #1 carpro, Aug 11, 2010
  2. KenH

    KenH Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 18, 2002
    Messages:
    41,978
    Likes Received:
    1,483
    Faith:
    Baptist
    The cuts are not scheduled to take place until 4 years from now. Considering the amount of budget cuts across the board that will probably have to take place by 2014 to avoid a fiscal catastrophe happening here this $12 billion will just be a drop in the bucket.
     
    #2 KenH, Aug 11, 2010
  3. carpro

    carpro Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Oct 14, 2004
    Messages:
    25,823
    Likes Received:
    1,167
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Uh huh.

    That makes it even worse. The payoff starts now.
     
    #3 carpro, Aug 11, 2010
  4. KenH

    KenH Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 18, 2002
    Messages:
    41,978
    Likes Received:
    1,483
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Yes, it does make it worse. We are in serious, serious fiscal trouble in this country. This last decade with either major party in power has been disastrous spending wise.
     
    #4 KenH, Aug 11, 2010
  5. Don

    Don Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Oct 7, 2000
    Messages:
    11,048
    Likes Received:
    321
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Yet another proposal that won't go into effect until after the next presidential election.

    So we still have time to elect a different president, and plenty of time to overturn all this legislation before it goes into effect....

    I wonder: Is that what they expect to happen? So they can turn around later and say, "hey, we enacted all kinds of legislation that was beneficial for the people, but all these new congressional people, and this new president, they're the ones that nixed it. We tried to help the American people, but these guys killed it"....
     
    #5 Don, Aug 11, 2010
  6. targus

    targus New Member

    Joined:
    Feb 10, 2008
    Messages:
    8,459
    Likes Received:
    0
    I think that it is more a matter of vote buying.

    Give all this stuff to the unions so that they will vote for Democrats in November - but the bill doesn't come due until down the road.
     
    #6 targus, Aug 11, 2010
  7. rbell

    rbell Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 16, 2006
    Messages:
    11,103
    Likes Received:
    0
    Dingdingding...we have a winner.

    The correct answer is "unions."
     
    #7 rbell, Aug 11, 2010
  8. sag38

    sag38 Active Member

    Joined:
    Jan 26, 2008
    Messages:
    4,395
    Likes Received:
    2
    but the bill doesn't come due until down the road.

    And, if the Republicans are in control guess who will get the blame just as the dem's are now blaming Republicans for putting an expiration date on the tax cuts when in fact it was the dem's who hijacked the cuts by demanding that there be expiration dates.
     
    #8 sag38, Aug 12, 2010
  9. Bob Alkire

    Bob Alkire New Member

    Joined:
    Mar 23, 2001
    Messages:
    3,134
    Likes Received:
    1
    Way back when I had a professor who said in politics liberals would win, because the end justifies the means. He would use the conservatives as Gene Autry, he said Gene wouldn't shoot a man in the back but the other side would. And he said he agreed with it because he was a liberal, you do what one has to to win. So BHO is doing what he thinks will keep him in office, paying off those who paid him to take care of them and throw the rest away.
     
    #9 Bob Alkire, Aug 12, 2010
    Last edited by a moderator: Aug 12, 2010
  10. carpro

    carpro Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Oct 14, 2004
    Messages:
    25,823
    Likes Received:
    1,167
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Except when the nation is at war. Then they do whatever it takes to lose.
     
    #10 carpro, Aug 12, 2010
  11. Bob Alkire

    Bob Alkire New Member

    Joined:
    Mar 23, 2001
    Messages:
    3,134
    Likes Received:
    1
    From after WWII you are correct.
     
    #11 Bob Alkire, Aug 12, 2010
(You must log in or sign up to post here.)
Loading...