Twenty-six billion Federal dollars earmarked specifically for teachers for bailing out states is simply buying votes and putting state sovereignty at greater risk via the use of debt (no doubt this is something Pelosi learned from the Chinese and political donors).
The entire government complex, state and federal, needs to take a pay cut, a reduction, until they balance their budget. Each and every employee can make adjustments in their personal budget. Individuals will make cuts that will trickle down and trickle up. Cutting jobs so certain people can maintain salaries bloated by the excesses of yesterday's bogus economy created under the supervision of worthless and corrupt politicians will only overburden the remaining workers and in this case our kids suffer and the security of our future is put at risk. The economy those salaries were based upon was bogus and I pray it is not coming back. WE ALL MUST SUFFER AS WE COME BACK TO REALITY. Pelosi, be trendy, take a pay cut!
Turner Echols
Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
