Jim DeMint & James Clyburn Clash Over Securing Emergency Funds To Prevent 2,600 S.C. Teacher Layoffs

McClatchy:

WASHINGTON -- The most powerful members of the South Carolina congressional delegation are unable or unwilling to take the steps necessary to secure emergency funding to save the jobs of 2,600 public school teachers in the state.

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Comments

[Gutts]

01:46 PM on 12/10/2010

SC voted for the republicans to run their state, so let the chips fall.

[Exfl]

11:22 PM on 12/09/2010

Jim Clyburn cares about the future of South Carolina.
Jim DeMint cares about....Jim DeMint.

[Alan Papacito]

10:47 PM on 12/09/2010

It must suk to be in the same congressional delegation as Jim DeMint. The complete lack of rational thought coming out of the DeMinted mind just amazes me. My sister had a talking doll that talked when you pulled a string, and that doll made more sense than JD.

[gerald4]

04:04 PM on 12/09/2010

The only way to create Tax Supported federal government bureaucrat jobs and government contracts to create government paid contractor jobs is for the private sector to be taxed and/or obligate the private sector though bonded endebtedness to create the funds to pay the public bureaucrat employee's salaries and benefits.

Primitive civilizations such as early pioneers and settlers of the USA had to provide their own military defense, police, firefighters, teachers, medicine, water, sewer, roads, bridges, welfare and other services as best as they could.

After the early pioneers and settlers could produce enough necessities of life for themselves and also to also support a rudimentary civilization, would they then combine their meager resources/or and tax themselves to hire bureaucrats as soldiers, teachers, water system operators, police, firefighters, and other services but limited these bureaucrats to the number that they could afford.

These bureaucrats did allow the producers to become more productive by not having to worry about providing those services for themselves (and for their own families).

[kimbutgar]

03:13 PM on 12/09/2010

So Demented is ok with doing away with public education in South Carolina. Wow that will go over great with the poor and middle class in South Carolina when they will have to stay home and home school their children. Which will produce an even greater amount of uneducated people who will continue to vote republican against their own best interests. Maybe this state needs to live with the action of their elected officials like Demented. I really respect Clyburn though for standing up to Demented.

[gerald4]

04:05 PM on 12/09/2010

Raise local taxes and/or cut public services!

[teacher39years]

08:22 PM on 12/09/2010

You're right. Ignorance is bliss and votes Republican.

[kareemachan]

01:23 PM on 12/09/2010

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Rome is burning and all the Democrats care about is keeping teachers (aka one of their many interest groups) happy.
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Wow. I'm guessing wisco doesn't have any kids.

[christopherflynn]

03:08 PM on 12/09/2010

nor was very well-educated...mum and pop probably took care of all his needs....

[kareemachan]

01:22 PM on 12/09/2010

Well, we all know that the last thing dummint wants is an educated (and therefore, elitist) constituency.

[1donewrong]

12:14 AM on 12/10/2010

CA, NY and MA have been crying wold for 20 years and they are broke

[libertylobo]

12:17 PM on 12/09/2010

Say NO to bailing out states! If the states acted and spent irresponsibly they should suffer the consequences...otherwise they will never learn their lesson and responsible states will have to pick up the tab.

[kimbutgar]

03:17 PM on 12/09/2010

The States are in trouble because of the lowering of taxes by the republicans. I think that whatever a state contribute is what they should get. Why should states like California and NY get less per capita back then a state like Alaska or South Carolina.

Libertylobo Just once could you think beyond your ideology and think longer term before you make statements like you did? Look ahead instead of a knee jerk right wing ideology reaction. Sometimes when you think beyond what's in front of you, you might change your opinion. Just a little constructive criticism.

[Andy Clark]

09:08 PM on 12/09/2010

well said.

[1donewrong]

12:15 AM on 12/10/2010

the numbers you are quoting don't exclude lareg military complexs

[wrightthewrong]

12:14 PM on 12/09/2010

Surely, Senator Demented knows that there is no union for teachers in the South. I'm sure that he also realizes that if he strangles the funding for public school teachers, Nikki Haley will have an easier time instituting a voucher system for all of those alternative charter/aka religious schools (at least for those students who need no busing to get there).

Why, just this morning, I opened my copy of The State newspaper (from Columbia, where I live), to see that our new governor, Nikki Haley, has hired a Labor Secretary who has been a union-busting attorney for years. So much to look forward to here... NOT.

[1donewrong]

12:16 AM on 12/10/2010

good for the gov

[hotbarb2614]

11:46 AM on 12/09/2010

Yeah DeMint to hell with teachers keeping there jobs and kids going to school and no unempolyment benefits but your rich friends will get there tax break.

[1donewrong]

12:16 AM on 12/10/2010

send the illegals home

[Wisco-libertarian]

11:06 AM on 12/09/2010

Rome is burning and all the Democrats care about is keeping teachers (aka one of their many interest groups) happy.

[LonosCurse]

12:22 PM on 12/09/2010

Yeah, what would SC do with teachers anyway?

[1donewrong]

12:17 AM on 12/10/2010

maybe the dream act and illegals aren't such a good idea now since the state has to pay for all their benefits

[Wisco-libertarian]

01:11 AM on 12/10/2010

Pay those teacher ridiculous wages because the Dems are beholden to them.

[rustysc]

02:37 PM on 12/09/2010

Rome is burning and all the Republicans want to increase the deficit by continuing the tax cuts for the wealthy!
God forbid we have educated children, all the teabaggers know that would be horrible to deal with intelligent populace!

[teacher39years]

08:25 PM on 12/09/2010

God forbid we have educated children, all the teabaggers know that would be horrible to deal with intelligen­t populace!

Fox News wouldn't like it either.

[1donewrong]

12:17 AM on 12/10/2010

mexico wants their children educated so they have a smart drug cartel

[roxiehart]

10:54 AM on 12/09/2010

"The baseless accusations from Congressman Clyburn's office are absurd," said Wesley Denton, a DeMint spokesman.

Enough said. Let's move on to important things like: DADT, DREAM Act, etc. To he!! with spending, tax increases, funding the government......let's do the important things. lol

[WilliamProc]

10:53 AM on 12/09/2010

GOP politics in action!

No new or raised taxes mean that you can't hire and retain teachers, the schools get dilapidated, and almost 50% of your school buses won't run. And when angry parents call to complain, the word is: We don't have the money to_______."

Its not as if the America they are growing up in relies on an education anyway!

[1donewrong]

12:18 AM on 12/10/2010

How is that a federal problem??

[WilliamProc]

11:06 AM on 12/10/2010

WOW!

Since you asked; who do you think is going to have to inject money into SC coffures to keep the teachers in school and make the buses run? Who do state governments rely upon for money when they fall short and their state taxpayers don't have the money?

Part of what the federal government does is give money to states in need; see infrastructure programs, etc. Did you not learn anything when the federal stimulus bill went through?

[jerryfromcalifornia]

10:33 AM on 12/09/2010

As long as the schools have teachers for kindergarten thru 6th grade, their covered.

[Exfl]

11:25 PM on 12/09/2010

Maybe somebody needs to be hired to teach the difference between "their", "there" and "they're". Sixth grade graduates tend to confuse them :)

[1donewrong]

12:19 AM on 12/10/2010

that's what a Harvard train grad has completed ala barak

[southwestque]

10:13 AM on 12/09/2010

What no one seems to be talking about are the 5 " bluedog democrats" that torpedoed the $250,000 dollar tax limit bill. Let's discuss them! Where are the tax conservative Tea Party hippocrites? Why are they silent?? Where is the disgust with the lowdown-bottom dwelling GOP that held the unemployed for ransom? All I hear is Obama! Obama! Obama! Now look the GOP is ready to shut schools down. Where are the voices of opposition? Where is the SC Tea Party? Hippocrites!

[jerryfromcalifornia]

10:35 AM on 12/09/2010

If I hear anothern accent I think I'm going to hurl.

[finally007]

10:04 PM on 01/23/2011

hi guy