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| Jobs bill to stop public employee layoffs nears approval |
| 2010-08-05 |
| Yesterday: Tax breaks for Blue Staters. Today: Employment security for public sector unions. WASHINGTON — Legislation to provide billions to save the jobs of teachers and other public workers is on track to pass the Senate, helped along by the votes of a couple of GOP moderates. Democrats cracked a GOP filibuster on Wednesday, and the House was being called back from its summer break for an expected final vote next week to help cash-strapped states and school districts. The $26 billion measure would help states ease their severe budget problems and, advocates said, stop the layoffs of perhaps 300,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public employees. Though scaled back, the bill also would salvage a victory for Democrats who have been unable to deliver most of the jobs help they and President Barack Obama promised. Most Republicans oppose the measure, calling it a payoff to public employee unions and warning that it would make the states ever-dependent on federal money. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #5 Lay them off now. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-08-05 20:55 |
| #4 Dumb. As usual the Maine sisters are Donks-in-all-but-name. *spit* |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-08-05 16:31 |
| #3 Great News! The best thing to give an alcoholic is more booze and the best thing to give state governments is more money to spend. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-08-05 15:25 |
| #2 Passed. 61-39. Usual suspects Snow and Collins of Maine put it over the top. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-08-05 13:09 |
| #1 Most Republicans oppose the measure... warning that it would make the states ever-dependent on federal money. That is the general idea. If the states are dependent on the feds, that whole troublesome "state's rights" thing goes away. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-08-05 12:57 |