How do you explain and / or rationalize the line from the article that “With falling enrollment, 14 more teachers were let go”? I have no idea of the class sizes. But liberals like you are always quick to demagogue the evil politicians who want to fire teachers. Even when they’re not needed? The public school system has to pay this teacher for 45 days after she’s been terminated, but you don’t think that’s enough.

And, as for Governor McDonnell, I’m not proud of him requesting or accepting these federal funds. But, as was the case with Governor Palin accepting the federal money for the “bridge to nowhere”, I think you need to understand the dynamics at work. 49 other governors are holding their empty cup up to the federal faucet. With no control over the faucet, it is the governor’s job to fill our cup as best he can. If he did not accept this funding, you’d be crucifying him for putting his personal political ambition over the needs of the state. It is up to our idiot Representatives and Senators to turn off the faucet in order to save the Republic.

Meanwhile, here in Virginia, the federal aid requested by Gov. McDonnell has helped him to balance the state budget without raising taxes.

The union rep laments that the bailout money wasn’t used to keep the teachers employed anyway, even though falling enrollment at the school indicated the need for 14 fewer teachers. Also touching is that the rep doesn’t grasp the irony of the situation, because, in fact, “Ms. VanNess was already laid off when the stimulus bill was signed” – that was the first time she was laid off this school year, nearing the end of summer vacation. Irony is always lost on the dim bulbs.

Amazingly, the Toledo Blade news report blames, in part, the parents of the schoolchildren for the layoffs. Reduced student population means less teachers are necessary. The article believes “Many parents pulled their children because of cuts to services.” Yeah, right. Give up a free public school education because the seventh-grade ping-pong team was eliminated? That’s like saying “No thanks” to a free steak dinner because a haircut and a back rub aren’t included in the deal.

Finally, the Toledo Superintendent is forecasting a $44 million shortfall in the budget next year. He’s “scoured the wording of the federal legislation for permissible uses beyond rehiring teachers” to try to find ways to spend the bailout money in other places to close that gap. Maybe new school construction projects (hopefully they’re shovel-ready). Maybe shoring up teacher pension programs. Maybe hiring more crossing guards. He might be able to save the ping-pong team. Anything but teachers, because the school doesn’t need them.

Maybe the “jobs” that were really intended to be saved by this round of government largesse were the Democrat lawmakers’ jobs?

People ask what’s wrong with bailouts and stimulus. Here in one local newspaper snapshot is pretty much everything that’s wrong with bailouts and stimulus.

Maybe Molly is right:
1) During Sen. McCain’s presidential campaign, his brother Joe called Northern Virginia “communist country.”
2) A statue of Stalin was recently erected in Bedford, Virginia.

Educate yourself:-

http://americanvision.org/662/make-money-buy-socialism-see-happens/

e.g.
“…….. California. It used to be the most capitalist state in the USA. The people made lots of money, then they bought socialism with it, and as a result they didn’t have electricity.”

“the president of Venezuela warned his countrymen not to sing in the shower and wash in three minutes. The reason is power and water shortages in a country that has enormous oil reserves and has a humid tropical climate.”

Just five years before the Communist revolution, the “backward peasants” of Tsarist Russia exported more grain than all of Western Europe combined.

“Sweden, with more land per capita than any European country and stagnant population, manages to have housing shortages. ”

” The French healthcare system, the pride of the French government, experiences severe shortages of qualified physicians.”

“Germany has the same problem with computer specialists. ”

See a trend here?

Read this, you might learn something.

http://americanvision.org/662/make-money-buy-socialism-see-happens/

e.g.
“…….. California. It used to be the most capitalist state in the USA. The people made lots of money, then they bought socialism with it, and as a result they didn’t have electricity.”

“the president of Venezuela warned his countrymen not to sing in the shower and wash in three minutes. The reason is power and water shortages in a country that has enormous oil reserves and has a humid tropical climate.”

Just five years before the Communist revolution, the “backward peasants” of Tsarist Russia exported more grain than all of Western Europe combined.

“Sweden, with more land per capita than any European country and stagnant population, manages to have housing shortages. ”

” The French healthcare system, the pride of the French government, experiences severe shortages of qualified physicians.”

“Germany has the same problem with computer specialists. ”

See a trend here?