No new jobs in the part of Jobs Bill vote scheduled for Friday.

[sad sally]

Any bets on if it'll pass? If it does how will it be doled out to the States? What will be cut to pay for it?
Not saying it's not a good thing, but when will the new jobs for the 16,000,000 unemployed/underemployed come up for a vote?
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Leader Reid schedules end of the week vote on $35 billion jobs bill.

Legislation would prevent layoffs of teachers, police officers and firefighters.


Read more: http://thepage.time.com/2011/10/19/senate-showdown-friday/#ixzz1bGe3jGwG?du

[FarCenter]

1. Apparently Sen. Menendez believes that education should prepare students to compete economically

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r112:1:./temp/~r1121ZXYYB:e0:#
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/R?r112:FLD001:S06626#

The Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act creates 400,000 education jobs because an investment in our teachers is an investment in our children and in our collective future. We are talking about $30 billion to States and local communities to retain, to hire, to rehire the teachers who have already been separated, to educate tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

[badtoworse]

2. Reid should focus on creating private sector jobs.

Supporting the public sector with "stimulus" is not going to fix the problems we have.