Who Is The Stimulus Money Stimulating? Teachers
by Veronique de RugyBased on the Recovery.gov data, more than two third of the 594,754.3 jobs “created or saved” with the stimulus funds were “created or saved” in the Department of Education (see chart). Basically, what the administration meant by shovel ready projects was funding for your next door teacher.
Now, let’s recap some of findings and news of the previous weeks.
1. Most jobs are created in the Department of Education
2. In 2009, for the first time ever, more public-sector employees (7.9 million) belonged to a union than did private-sector employees (7.4 million) despite there being five times more wage and salary workers in the private sector.
3. A third of all union jobs are in Education
4. 33 percent of the education industry is unionized
5. The union boss, Andy Stern, was appointed to be on the president’s debt commission.
It all makes sense, doesn’t it?
Now, what do you think the chance are that the stimulus funds for education will be made permanent?
(Cool chart and data here)
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33 percent of the education industry is unionized………This is the number one reason why unions should be abolished!! The education system in this country is shameful!! Teacher are kept on the job whether or not they are doing their job…they should be paid by merit NOT just because they belong to a union!!!
The stimulus funds for education are going to be running out. I've heard plenty of stories of teachers being hired on the understanding that there was only money to pay them for a year or two. I'm sure they'll sue the states when that funding runs out rather than go gracely into being fired.
The Dept. of Education…the Frankenstein monster of the Carter administration created as a payoff to the unions.
A cabinet level Education Department that educates nobody.
Want to reduce the deficit? Eliminate this department completely.
I AGREE 100000000000000%
when the stimulus money runs out later this year, we will be forced to listen to local school districts wailing and moaning that they have to lay off teachers unless voters give them more money. its all for the children, of course!
When you use a stimulus the nerve endings become numb and need a refratory period to become senistive again.
The irony here is that stimulus is not sustainable and the progressives don't realize that we understand this.
More bizarre and dubious "facts and figures" from Veronique de Rugy.
Trying to use government to create prosperity is like standing in a bucket and trying to lift yourself.
Then when you add unions to public employees you are taxing the tax reveues that are already being taxed.
Stimulus funds for education? How about stimulus funds to bail out the under funded pension funds. A pension plan that will allow an employee to retire as young as age 55 with close to the same pay they recieved while working.
For life!
This Stimulus was the biggest con ever pulled on the American taxpayer. Madoff is probably in awe!!
There must be change to prevent the raping of our country by Progressives from happening anymore!
Based on the Recovery.gov data, …
I guessed you missed that part huh?
Put down the spleef and pay attention junior.
"Get 'em while they're young."
That's the motto of every good child molester, teacher, and politician. It worked for all the despots in history: Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussien, Barrack Hussien Obama……….
You might check the LA Times from over the weekend about the State of California nurses who make 250K due to overtime and can retire at age 50 with 80% pension. If they live for 30 years that means 200K x 30 which equals 6M. And they thik the nation can afford to bail them out??? Let China own them!
Ohhhhhhhhh…. don't get me going on that. A former neighbor of mine in LA was a retired county nurse. Nice lady. I'm sure she was a great nurse. But when I heard about her pension and saw how she lived. Whoooooooaaaaa!!
Nope!
And that's what they mean when they say they need more money for local hospitals. "It's for the hospitals!!!"
Madoff was a piker.
Ponzi? Rank amatuer.
2/3 of the jobs created going to people that work 1/4 of a day for 2/3 of the year seems to be in line with how this admin. thinks. If stimulus for ed. were made permanent would that be like granting tenure to tenure?
Granting tenure to tenure?
Just wait until the jobs numbers are released for all those temporary permanent census workers. They will all be tenured, and tethered, to the government teat ad infinitum………..
This would be a fantastic story about our,…"Tax dollars at work", ….. unfortunately……..
this chart shows an increase in the public education system,…….I would have rather,………
have spent the money on hammers and toilet seats.
Maybe these pension plans need to be brought into the realm of reality……..
I am certainly not for putting my retirement at risk by bailing out foolishness.
IFFFFF they want to get a handle on Healthcare costs then follow the damn money and look at the obscene pensions… NAHHHHHHHHHH Barack Hussein Obama only wants to redistribute the wealth. He is too lazy and arrogant to do the real job. He is nothing but a smooth talking welfare recipient at a higher rate of pay.
Welcome to the NEW and Reorganized 'United Welfare States of Amerika'
Redistribution of wealth is no longer COMING, it is already here!
Sue the states? LOL! Where do they think the states will get the money???
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What do they do you ask? Very simply put… They BUY ELECTIONS and POWER is theirs.
it is actually incorrect to say it goes to teachers, it is NOT teachers as the money only goes to UNION teachers
….And, when he went there the bank vault was bare! Eventually there will be no more money; eventually the American people will wake up, eventually…. Modern day unions are nothing more than political self serving racketeers. American workers used to have pride in their chosen professions and in themselves, now it’s all about what you can steal from one group to the next. Greed is the creed.
C'mon you don't really expect these media matters mosquitoes to check the facts. Progressives are physically allergic to truth.
The solution to the union problem is vouchers. Make the unions compete instead of having a monopoly. This won't be easy as we saw Washington D.C. with their voucher system.
No surprise here, our commie President would love to make sure that DOL, HUD, DOT get some of that redistributed weath, but those positions are not as important as keeping our propagandist teachers unions in the black because without their indoctrination of our kids the other socialist union jobs could be disbanded by a population that was actually educated with the truth.
The public school curriculum IS a shovel-ready project…though a pitchfork would also do.
No surprise here, Comrade Obama would love to make sure that DOT, HUD and DOL got their fair share of the redistributed wealth, but the teachers have to be taken care of first. Without those teachers indoctrinating our kids the other union scum's jobs could eventually be disbanded and privatized by a population that was actually educated with the truth rather than sociaIist propaganda.
The sham of the stimulus is this, who is going to be holding the "bag" when the fed money runs out? The cash strapped state to maintain these jobs!
Funny that my reply got pushed to the bottom.
Based on dubious "calculations" in the past (like union workers seeing a 25% increase in wages last year) I would like to see how she is "calculating" these things.
Just wait until all those union members find out that Andy blew their retirement fund. That's gonna leave a mark.
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If you send me your email address I will email you the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that shows the 25 percent increase in union industry salary in the last 2 years and the Recovery.gov data that this chart is based on.
Veronique de Rugy
Not "union workers," you imbecile product of unionized public schools: employees of the unions themselves. The bosses, see? The goons and kneecappers.
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While they may try to sue the states, it will be pointless. IAQ union bargaining agreements, positions that are grant funded also contain a statement that clearly delineates the position is subject to grant funding. No grant funds, no position. You will find that throughout almost any grant funded positions, it is on the position advertisement, position description, and even the position employment contract.
FACTS, they can't handle the FACTS !!! (paraphrased from Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men)
Look in the dictionary under "Leech", don't be surprised to see the synonym "Union".
Excellent analogy, especially concerning the male bovine type of excrement.
I am a teacher who works 9 to 10 hours a day for 10 months of the year. I am only paid for the days I am on contract, and DO NOT receive any paid vacation days! I am sorry that you have such a low opinion of us.
You may, as long as you use it for good
Or the local school district! The progressives in the states like to cut the stuff that causes the most pain first (schools, fire fighters, cops, road maintenance, etc.) so that it will appear that they need more money from the people. They never cut the pork first as it is how they get reelected.
In Montana, the state Office of Public Instruction (OPI) got together with the state and decided that school districts in wealthy areas had more money that districts in not-so-weathy areas. To redistribute the wealth, they took the school tax revenues from all the districts, and then divied them out equally based on student population. To make up the differences in the wealthy areas, local levies were passed to get back up to enough money to pay the teachers (95% of the budget is for teachers). Then the progressives at the state decided to throttle back how much is paid to the districts of the school tax revenues becuase it is now mixed into the general fund of the state.
Bottom line is the farther the money gets from the source the less likely those who paid it will see any of it in the future.
USSR so right about what he has in store for us.
Kaki,…..do understand this,…if what you say is correct and we certainly have no doubt that it is,……..but…….
what fission guy was referring to was to the vast, vast, vast,…… majority of the teachers here in the US.
bring you teaching certificate to Chicago and join the fun.
If only the quality of the widgets produced in these factories warranted the increase in expenditure.
"Why Widget can't Read"
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With the unions it's like standing in two buckets of concrete and being lowered into the east river.
Yep. Get em young and train em right. The motto of NAMBLA and the Dept. of Red-ucation..
True, but Moody's places that state debt back on federal balance sheet becuase the feds will eventually bail out California, NY and all the other dysfunctional, profligate states. This is why Moody's is warning about US AAA rating. And BusProf sayd this is even happening in Montana! When I was growing up Montana was the epitome of rugged individualism, small government and general "leave me alone" attitude. I really worry about our country if Montana is Progressive.
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I am SICK of hearing people lump ALL teacher into either the AFT or the NEA. The majority of Missouri’s school teachers belong to neither! In the district I work in, I just took a $3,500 pay cut because the district was forced to eliminate summer school. Next year will be even worse as we are looking at not only having no summer school, but we are also looking at having our Career ladder monies taken. For me that will be ANOTHER $5,000 pay cut! Obama has done NOTHING for us! Neither have the AFT or the NEA!!!
Don't waste your time, Ma'am. It would be like trying to explain quantum physics to an artichoke.
What's the difference between Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, the Easter Bunny, Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the "Overworked, Underpaid Union Teacher"?
you might be able to actually find one of the first five…
I can't speak for anyone else Kaki but I have a low opinion of your attitude.
You act like you are the only one working a full day to make a living. Most of us here work 9-10 hours a day 11 and a half months a year. We ain't complaining about it. That's who we are.
And if the economy sucks, as it does now, everybody takes it on the chin. EXCEPT teachers and other govt employees.
The rest of us get our taxes raised so you don't get laid off or forced to take a pay cut like we do.
Maybe our opnions would change if your attitude did.
No problem Paul. After all they bought Obama and he controls the Treasurey printing presses… At least he thinks so for today.
Time to outlaw greedy public employee unions.
Oh, and we need to outlaw Liberalism in politics too. Once the Repubs regain power they should ram through a seperation of Liberalism and state via reconciliation.
It took me a while to type this <LMAO> I am going to have to add this to my bucket analogy if you don't mind.
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Unions represent everything that is disfunctional with our domestic economy. They are the primary contributing factor for our outsourced jobs and manufacturing base.
If this reality can one day dawn on the conciousness of the public, the unions are done.
you make a great point, and if the NEA and ATF were abolished…think of how much money would be saved and redistributed to fund some of these jobs without adding more taxpayer dollars. I mean, hey, what do the unions do anyway?? other than take in millions of union dues from members, then pay union bosses royal salaries and benefits….and then spend the rest of those dues on Progressive political campaigns and political advertising. Why?? what do we get for these wasted taxpayer dolars??? I can tell you what we get, declining high schooll graduation rates and more teens turning to crime and handouts to survive. What a country.
Great line! Mind if I steal it?
No surprise there. Besides funding the Unions, they are also providing sustenance for the propaganda machine. Gotta keep them young brains pointed in the right (or left) direction.
While I agree with you, it seems Barack Hussien Obama does not. Health non-care, Cap&Tax, Immigration amnesty for illegals who need benefits and welfare, Welfare Redefined so they have every perk available without working, UN funds for all of the worlds poor subsidies and he now has his eye on taking over private pensions and my guess is our 401K's. Then he can truly control and elinminate the middle class. We will soon have the elites to govern, the uber-rich and the working poor who have almost as much as the welfare class with no work effort.
Obama could care less about our future plans based on our lifes effort and work.
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[...] to teach us about sex?That’s from Enoch Root at Piece of Work in Progress, and here’s Veronique de Rugy at BigGovernment.com:Based on the Recovery.gov data, more than two third of the 594,754.3 jobs “created or saved” [...]
so you mean to tell me that, after some fifty years of which i am aware, all the moaning and gnashing of teeth about lack of funding, which prompted innumerable votes to increase spending, property taxes, lotteries, bridge tolls and now the lionshare of stimulus money.. all because the reason that 'our kids is (not) learning' was that there wasn't enough money to go around… are complete BS ?!? why.. i'm shocked ! shocked i tell you ! i have to believe that the teacher's union raised that 211.8 million they donated to candidates came from bake sale receipts. they could not have been simply lying about education being under-funded, using children as pawns to increase personal wealth and political power….. could they ?!?
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Don't tell "Veronica" here – her role as a CFR stooge is to create hatred toward "government workers."
And the biggest cost with the least gain for Americans is our military – which can't even prevent an invasion from Mexico. Time to dissolve them. All they do now is fight wars for Israel.
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And this is assuming we can even believe the statistics reported by the Democrat’s key labor allies. The Dems wasted a trillion dollars and need to have something to show for it. And here comes the public employee unions to prove that the Dem’s really did save the day. There is no reason to believe the statistics that leftwing unions come up with to support leftwing wealth-spreading measures.
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[...] that that is the reason you and I buy firearms, then that is a fair assumption. Also, I think with this many jobs “saved and/or created” within the DOE that they could get violent if someone tries to pry their fingers from that big a [...]
What is government doing in the education business anyway? Half of California's massive budget by law has to go to education.
Yet education is failing. It's not working. The hyper-expensive public schools have total control of the students for thirteen years (K-12) and still fail to teach the kids to read, write, figure or understand our system of government. Worse, this appears to be by design.
Privatize Education. The states are going broke. Sell off the education system. It's bankrupting us and for all that money it does not educate.
Shameful.
Unions WILL be abolished…just not overtly. When their myopia results in the inevitable collapse of governments at all levels, their members will simply be left without jobs and facing a public who is paid 30-40% less than they are. The good times are over, boys and girls of the SEIU et al. You parasites got greedy and sucked too much blood. You have killed your host, and now you're hosed.
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I'm a teacher with 15 years experience. I haven't seen any stmulus money. I still spend thousands of my own dollars to purchase material to supplement my classroom lessons (historical DVD's, maps, posters, books, replica artifacts, etc).
I'm also a rare conservative voice in a LibCong wilderness. Please don't paint all teachers with the same LibCong brush.
Missouri teacher –
1) Not getting summer school pay isn't a "cut"
2) the SLPD published last year's salaries for all state ED. employees (including teachers). As an example, multiple teachers (not Admin – teachers) make in excess of $60K for a 180 day "year", along w/health, dental, & vision care, vacation, sick leave (cumulative) and holidays, and a guaranteed pension pegged to the final employment years, all at a High School that rated a 38 (against other Missouri HS) out of 100….
3) then for a real "jolt" look up the Admin salaries – rural districts paying $75 ~ $100K w/the same (or better) bennies…
You've come to the wrong place to whine
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[...] Reports Veronique de Rugy: Based on the Recovery.gov data, more than two third of the 594,754.3 jobs “created or saved” with the stimulus funds were “created or saved” in the Department of Education (see chart). Basically, what the administration meant by shovel ready projects was funding for your next door teacher. [...]
Like state government, education is slow to react. Many programs are budgeted and paid for and then a year later the money is actually spent. Unlike a family or private business which can reallocate funds to more pressing needs, gov't can't do that. That's why you still see teacher pay raises, off site training, seminars, conferences, etc… continuing as normal. It'll probably take a couple of budget cycles for things like this to be cut.
Yesiree…us teachers here in Texas are really putting the screws to the non-teacher taxpayer. Very lucrative profession. After 18 years as a teacher the stimulus moved me from the lofty 45,000 to 45,800. Are you jealous yet. It gets better. Our district, like most gives a modest step raise (500-800) for each year of service. Since the Bamster gave us 800 the district decided they didn't have to.
Don't paint all states and all teachers with the same brush PLEASE. Big mistake to do that.
BS. See Texas Education Agency 21.402 (c-1)
I would just like to say, as a teacher in a public school, I use my children free summer to keep my certification current at no expense to you or anyone else. I pay out of my own pocket because I love teaching and want to know all that I can. As for the misconception that we only work 10 months a year, try working two jobs in addition to teaching, which I do, just to make ends meet. Our summers are not "free". I don't have time to lounge by the pool with a cocktail. I am not a member of any union because I know what they are all about and don't intend to ask you for anything. I would certainly like to see you go into a classroom and do my job, and do it effectively, for a week. You would be ready to walk away after one day. I am not one of the teachers that sits and does nothing all day. I take pride in my profession. It is really unbelievable that people hold such low opinions of educators.
Didn"t say what they did was legal…I'm telling you what they did. Our all powerful teachers union has been working 5 months to correct it.
The DOE should be cancelled but the GOP must think it's a good deal too along with the D.O. Energy that Carter started in 1972 to get us off foreign oil that has a budget this year of 23.2 BILLION and 16,000 employees and we import 2/3's of our oil. Vote out the RHINO's or suffer the consequences.
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Wake up!!! America. Everyone knows that something is not wright. Get up off your c ouch and do something about this big expansion of government. You might like Obama telling you what to do every moment, telling you what to buy, telling you how to live your life., tellling you when to die. I don't want any part of this. Shut this plan down!!!
This is the biggest bunch of crooks running this country and I just can't believe that he was voted in office. I can't believe that the people couldnt see this change comming. All of the radicals he hung out with and listened to.
I can't believe that its ok with everyone what his pastor was preaching and he was listening to for twenty years.
Think about it , birds of a feather flock together. Well it is comming true, Obama amd Wright are trying to dam America.. I rebuke his idelogy and thinking. Let's get him out of office.
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You are right about one thing. You make it sound like it sucks so bad (Two jobs, the whole summmer staying accredited, I'm thinking you only stay for the mental health benefits). that yes, I would be ready to walk after one day!
I mean if it's that bad…….. I know, I know…. You love your profession.
Sort of like the way Nicole loved OJ.
I've been summarizing this rip-off method by Obama/Stern/etc. for a while now as 'simply' stating (anywhere I can, wherever it's relevant) that the entire objective by Obama (and why he was elected) is/has been/continues to be for purposes of REDIRECTING (or taking away) money from taxpayers to unions.
The unions involved (various, Stern's SEIU is likely the most culpable but there are others) are taking money from the U.S. interests overall to fund their own liabilities and operating costs: legacy costs (retirement, salaries, upkeep when they're not working, operating costs, health insurance, etc.) that they were/are otherwise SUPPOSED TO BE paying for their own members themselves.
What's taking place is a taking of private sector money under various ruses ("health care," "it's an emergency," "we have to cover poor people" whatever it seems they can get away with) to fund union costs and union members' expenses.
What these unions have done/are doing with the dues-money they take in from their memberships, I don't know, but they're in the process of just siphoning away money from the U.S. taxpayers to "redirect" those monies to the unions.
And, the unions — particularly SEIU — are keen donors to the DNC.
In other words, "Stimulus" covered existing payroll demands, for the most part, keen among them those of the unions.
So much for "shovel ready" except for the B.S.-shovel kind Obama and his ugly tramps have shoved all over the U.S.
I have a difficult time accepting the fact that there are so many needy, suffering teachers in public schools (as reflected in a few comments, page 1 and yours there) while the Teachers Unions and Public Workers Unions (so-called) are taking so many $M of taxpayer money. School boards complicit with which?
All the children I see going and coming from CA public schools look like they're from Central America.
Check out what the Dept. of Ed. in L.A. County pays those administrators.
Before attacking all the teachers…I can tell you that all of our stimulus money was spent on reading intervention curriculum. It is definitely NOT the best use of the money since no one provided training on it and we don't have enough people to do it effectively. A stupid decision by the higher ups. None of our teachers were bought with the money.
I also agree 1xbillion times over. The Dept. of Education has become an engine to steal, a source of some sort of perpetually agitated angst about ethnicity and race.
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For what its worth— Missouri teachers retirement system is funded with 14% of a teacher's pay check a month.To my knowledge I do not know of another job that funds its retirement with that deduction off the top of the monthly paycheck. Please, let me know if there is. When a teacher retires unless they where born before 1930 will not be able to collect anytype of Social S. even if they have earned their qtrs. working outside the school system. I do recieve a deduction on my health ins. but still pay more then what the school does(different in each school system) and no I do not have dental… Whats dental????? I also am a teacher that does not belong to a union—- even if I did I would not improve my monthly paycheck….. the salery schale does not change.. Buy the way the way our contracts are written up tenure is more a title then a net. All a higher up would have to do is prove neg. of duties and no tenure title would save any teacher.
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[...] and has a non-market mind-set, the public sector is largely insulated from such forces and keeps or even adds workers despite changed conditions. The result? We keep paying for things that we don’t use, need, or [...]
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If it all went to the teachers , then how is it that 15 teachers were laid off in my two-school district in the last two years? How is it that class sizes are increasing despite research that proves smaller classes improves student learning? How is it that the resources that I rely on to provide a quality education for your child are rapidly disappearing? How is it that after 15 years of working in this district, my job may be cut? How is it that my salary is decreasing and the expenses I provide out of my own pocket are increasing?
Explain that.
I am a public employee, a school bus driver. I am a member of a Union, however, our numbers within the district are 10% of the teachers. Our members bring home an average of 23k per year. When cuts need to be made and budgets need to be balanced the teachers are the deciding factor, they average 73k per year. Our Superintendants earn 195k per year, more then our State Elected Officials. Instead of taking cuts and being LEADERS they say they are willing if the teachers are. Cuts are taking place now and if the teachers took a pay cut the budget could be saved, instead, our district is planning to oursource transportation to a private company, to a company based in Great Britian, for profit. It makes no sense that the lowest paid employees are being let go because the highest paid refuses to make concessions. The lowest paid are willing to sacrifice but the district doesn't even bother to talk to us if the teachers aren't willing to budge.
It is all part of the definition of "jobs saved": the stimulus money is being used to save government jobs in the Department of Education (not just teachers), and "save" means giving money to the states to maintain benefits payments (health care and retirement) that they can no longer afford. Without that "stimulus", the Department of Education would have to take the same steps that private industry has had to take when their revenues won't support their spending!
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