Teague Votes For THIRD Bailout/Tax Hike & Teague Allies Caught In Lie
Harry has done it not once, not twice but three times now! That’s right, Harry has officially voted for his THIRD bailout bill. Harry voted in FAVOR of HR 1586, the so-called ‘State Bailout’, yesterday which shells out another $26.1 BILLION dollars.
What does HR 1586 fund? It pays public union bosses, raises taxes on business and rewards spend happy states. According to Obama, Pelosi and Teague, this new bailout is going to ‘protect teachers, firemen and policemen’ from being laid off. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, let’s take a look at HR 1586: (http://article.nationalreview.com/439023/the-lefts-special-interest-human-shields/michelle-malkin, http://article.nationalreview.com/439009/state-bailout-trap/stephen-spruiell, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704164904575421613093659730.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop)
1. FEDERAL HIJACKING OF STATE BUDGETS – This new bailout stipulates that federal funds must be used to supplement, not replace, states spending on public education. It goes further in that it mandates that what each state spends on education must match or be greater than what that state spent on education the previous year. THIS BILL IS MANDATING WHAT A STATE SPENDS ON EDUCATION! IT’S FORCING A SPENDING INCREASE! In fact, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour was quoted in today’s Wall Street Journal stating that this new bailout bill will force his state to rewrite their current budget for fiscal year 2011 and increase funding thereby destroying their already balanced budget;
2. PUNISHMENT OF FISCALLY SOUND STATES – The state of Texas is specifically targeted because it refused to spend all of the stimulus money the feds tried to force down their throat. In fact, the funding rule of this new bailout goes until the year 2012 for Texas ONLY. Why? To force Texas to increase government spending and become reliant on federal stimulus money and stipulations. This past Friday, 22 GOP Texas Congressmen sent Speaker Nancy Pelosi a letter in which they informed her that, “This provision (i.e. funding rule) would have Texas violate her own State Constitution. The Texas Legislature has sole authority to determine State appropriations. Moreover, one Legislature cannot bind a future Legislature. Requiring the State to assure that a future Texas Legislature would commit to spend funds in accordance with these provisions would violate the Texas Constitution.” Texas Governor Rick Perry has come out adamantly opposed to the anti-Texas rule by saying that it would break the budget of Texas. Looks as if the left-wing machine in Washington hates that Texas has learned to live within their means and that it is the most business friendly and recession proof state in the nation currently because of it;
3. PAYOFF TO UNION BOSSES - Though this bailout is being defended as a way to ‘avoid laying off teachers and policemen’ nothing could be further from the truth. The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union, received $355,334,165 in union dues in 2009. Was this money used to help students or increase the quality of education? No. In fact, in 2009, the NEA spent $11 million MORE THAN IT TOOK IN! Exactly $50 MILLION of that was spent on political and lobbying activities. This bailout bill essentially redistributes about $36 million in taxpayer dollars to the NEA and another $14 million to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union. What about the teacher layoffs? Well, according to research done by Eric Hanushek of Stanford University, student enrollment in American public schools grew by 22% between 1990 and 2007. However, teacher employment grew by 41% in the same time period. Thus, this bailout prevents already bloated unions from sharing their part of the sacrifice. Plus, the union bosses refuse to work to help reach common sense solutions to education budget problems. In Milwaukee this year the teacher union bosses were given a choice. They could stand by as about 500 teachers were laid off or they could of agreed to having their members change to a less expensive health care plan and avoid any layoffs. The union bosses actually choose to sacrifice 500 of their own than seek a common sense compromise that didn’t even call for salary reductions. Now, these same union bosses are getting your tax dollars to stay in power;
4. NEW TAX HIKES ON BUSINESS – In order to pay for part of this new bailout when it comes to Medicaid, the left-wing majority in Congress pushed through a tax hike on companies that do business overseas. These tax hikes were implemented to fund a 6 month appropriations gap in Medicaid funding. So, we are going to implement about 10 years of new taxes against American business, which prevents job creation and economic recovery, to fix only 6 months worth of missing Medicaid funding. Absolute lunacy;
Once again, Harry Teague voted in FAVOR of more big government. Once again, Harry Teague voted in FAVOR of more forced state mandates. Once again, Harry Teague voted in FAVOR of higher taxes. Once again, Harry Teague voted in FAVOR for more payoffs to union bosses. Once again, Harry Teague voted in FAVOR of the Pelosi/Obama agenda.
We can NOT AFFORD two more years of Harry Teague as our Congressman.
Harry Teague’s radical, left-wing allies, Defenders of Wildlife, attempted to attack Teague’s GOP opponent, Steve Pearce, citing an old ethics accusation. Problem was that the alleged ethics violation against Pearce was found to be false by the House Ethics Committee (which is half GOP and half Democrat) and the very organization that accused Pearce, Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) admitted in writing that their investigation was botched (http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/node/536). CREW is a liberal biased organization that is run by several former Democratic congressional aides and left-wing policy group staffers (http://www.citizensforethics.org/about/staff).
Of course, no word from Teague’s camp condemning Defenders of Wildlife. How shocking.
It’s important to note that Defenders of Wildlife is a large donor to Teague’s campaigns (www.opensecrets.org) and that they helped push Teague to vote in favor of Cap & Trade (TAX) legislation in 2009.
Birds of a feather flock together.
