Sat Aug 18, 2012, 08:19 AM

cal04 (36,988 posts)

President Obama: Republican approach to education funding is backward

Source: Reuters

President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Saturday of a backward approach to education funding that would mean further teacher layoffs, in a veiled swipe at Republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan, who has led a drive for domestic-spending cuts.

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Though Obama did not mention Ryan by name, the Wisconsin congressman - a fiscal hawk picked last week by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to be his running mate - authored the Republicans' budget blueprint that passed the House of Representatives last March with no Democratic support.

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"The economic plan that almost every Republican in Congress voted for would make the situation even worse. It would actually cut funding for education," he said. "All to pay for a massive new tax cut for millionaires and billionaires."

"That's backwards. That's wrong," he said.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/18/us-usa-campaign-obama-education-idINBRE87H02I20120818

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/18/weekly-address-congress-should-back-plan-hire-teachers
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9 replies	Author	Time	Post
President Obama: Republican approach to education funding is backward (Original post)	cal04	Aug 2012	OP
"Republican Education Funding"	FatIrishBastard	Aug 2012	#1
Right.	inner lite	Aug 2012	#4
"inner lite"	FatIrishBastard	Aug 2012	#5
R is for regressive.	part man all 86	Aug 2012	#2
so much	Third Doctor	Aug 2012	#3
When you want to go forwards...	primavera	Aug 2012	#6
Educate	elbloggoZY27	Aug 2012	#7
the R's deliberately want to cut education so more stoopids will vote R	wordpix	Aug 2012	#8
Everything republiCONS do is "backwards and wrong". They're either stupid or venal, I think venal.	xtraxritical	Aug 2012	#9

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Sat Aug 18, 2012, 08:24 AM

FatIrishBastard (51 posts)

1. "Republican Education Funding"

Another contradiction in terms.

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Sat Aug 18, 2012, 11:41 AM

inner lite (12 posts)

4. Right.

The Democratic approach has been comprehensive. Obama, on his first day in office, ended both illegal, immoral wars and used the excess funds to actually fund NCLB. He hired people to head education on a federal level who were NOT trying to destroy public education as we know it.

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Sat Aug 18, 2012, 12:07 PM

FatIrishBastard (51 posts)

5. "inner lite"

Another contradiction in burns.

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Sat Aug 18, 2012, 09:32 AM

part man all 86 (367 posts)

2. R is for regressive.

G is for gawdless
O is for oppressive
P is for pissants
What does all this add up to,
Republicans.

Pissing on America and telling us it's raining, you know trickle down economics, trickle down jobs bill, trickle down education, trickle down health care, and trickle down civil rights. The just say NO party, thanks Nancy.

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Sat Aug 18, 2012, 10:31 AM

Third Doctor (1,025 posts)

3. so much

so that they want to reverse education in this country back to the 19th century. Little House nn the Prairie standards in the 21st century.

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Sat Aug 18, 2012, 12:12 PM

primavera (5,137 posts)

6. When you want to go forwards...

... you put the car in "D;" when you want to go backwards, choose "R."

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Sat Aug 18, 2012, 12:34 PM

elbloggoZY27 (283 posts)

7. Educate

Like I have been saying. There is nothing positive about the GOP Agenda.

Their ideas are totally regressive and will alienate our society. We need a progressive society not a regressive one that the GOP is pushing.

The central position of the GOP from day one is to take the White House from President Obama and try to disengage us instead of positive engagement.

Stop the charade about Social Security and Medicare and Health Care should be for all Americans .

Many States around the world have health care for all their citizens.

PS Voter Suppression is not American.

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Sat Aug 18, 2012, 12:38 PM

wordpix (12,478 posts)