Teachers unions cash in at expense of food stamp recipients

Democrats, teachers to poors: Let them eat whatever they can find

 At only $26 billion, America’s teachers are set to receive the cheapest bailout yet in the race to pillage America’s future before it ever happens.

Odd thing, though: When Republicans proposed to offset said extension with unused stimulus, Democrats ran to the press and said, “Mommy, mommy, the Repubwicans hate pwah people,” then held up the bill. Now the Democrats are all set to literally take food from the mouths of America’s homeless youth in order to keep teachers’ unions voting “D” in the midterms? Demoncrats: Redefining cynicism for the 21st century. 

 So you are rounding up the House members to come back to congress for this?

The pending House bill, which also includes $16 billion for Medicaid programs in the states, includes no requirements that school districts balance their budgets or report on whether the money is making a measurable effect in the classroom. Support for the bill has mainly been driven by the Federation for American Teachers, the largest group that represents teachers’ interests, which has donated more than $1.7 million to Democrats in 2010.

“It’s a wheel barrel of cash,” said Hess, adding that the infusion of money into the districts could only make it harder on local leaders to fix their budgets.

The Senate last week passed their own version of the bill, which cuts $12 billion beginning in 2014 from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, or “food stamps,” program to help make the measure deficit neutral. Anti-hunger advocates and conservatives alike decried the move.

“We’re taking money from feeding poor kids so middle class teachers don’t have to look for jobs,” said Frederick M. Hess, director of the Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

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