Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday said Congress needs to worry about government jobs more than private-sector jobs, and that this is why Senate Democrats are pushing a bill aimed at shoring up teachers and first-responders.
“It’s very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine; it’s the public-sector jobs where we’ve lost huge numbers, and that’s what this legislation is all about,” Reid said on the Senate floor.
Reid was responding to recent comments from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who accused Democrats of purposefully pursuing higher taxes as part of the teacher/first-responder bill, S. 1723, so that Republicans would oppose it. McConnell said the bill was meant to fail in order to give Democrats an issue to run on in the 2012 election, but Reid said the Republicans are simply trying to defeat President Obama any way they can.
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Reid reiterated his emphasis on creating government jobs by saying Democrats are looking to “put hundreds of thousands of people back to work teaching children, have more police patrolling our streets, firefighters fighting our fires, doing the rescue work that they do so well … that’s our priority.” He said Republicans are calling the bill a “failure” because they are “using a different benchmark for success than we are.”
The private sector pays for government jobs. And if I’m not mistaken, the last time stimulus money went to the teachers in, eg. California — WHY DO YOU HATE EDUCATION, WINGNUTS? — rather than use that money to hire new teachers, the taxpayers wound up subsidizing shortfalls in existing teachers’ pension funds.
The government doesn’t create wealth. It merely takes it from us and gives it to whomever it says needs it. And it seems that, with this Administration, the people who most need that money just happen to be public sector union employees, whose dues are then funneled back to the Democrat party.
If the filthy Marxists currently Occupying Wall Street were as serious as some polls say Americans believe they are, they’d be Occupying the streets outside the White House, along with the front lawns of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and a host of other thieves that, because they belong to the government class, are evidently above the law.
This country has gone to shit. By design, too. Enjoy the tyranny, useful idiots.
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(more here; h/t Adam Bitely, via Twitter)
We should all work for the government. Problems all solved. it’s so easy.
In keeping with Mittens’s notion of eliminating the gubmint middleman and outsourcing foreign aid to China, maybe the PRA would be considerate enough to send us cops and firefighters and teachers, if we asked them the right way.
So Reid wants to increase property or sales taxes for everyone including the lowest quintile, 3 or 4 years out or however many years it takes for the funding from this jobs bill to run out.
Running presses to print more money, so we can hire more people, to print more money, to hire more people…
I must need glasses…
if they paid the union whore teachers less they could afford to hire more of them
The government doesn’t create wealth.
Gubmint jobs are by definition parasitic, with the exception of a few that provide an actual useful service: cops and firefighters, the military, and a handful of others.
I’d exclude the teachers [unions, BIRM] if they actually provided some ROI on the tax money anymore, but they don’t.
I don’t have a problem with what teachers get paid. What they need to do is outlaw public unions and the federal education department, make public employees service their own pension/medical plans, and reduce school administrative costs drastically.
Reid is greatly over stepping federal authority in local matters.
i’m just trying to think outside the box
It’s plausible that if we quit paying public school teachers altogether, the current crop of students would end up with much better educations on the whole. I think it’s worth a shot.
No, just a more cooperative doctor with a seriously flexible attitude toward writing prescriptions.
How Harry got a prescription for LSD I’ll never know.
Dingy Harry has clearly lost his grip on reality. Is this a sign of early-onset dementia? Did anyone notice if he forgot to put on his pants?
Jumpin Jeebus on a pogo stick!
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