The Nancy Pelosi budget circus debuts a new act: From Exchequer:

The $10 billion bailout to the states — more accurately, to the states’ government-employee unions — was passed on the argument that, without it, there would be massive layoffs of teachers. That is not and was not ever going to happen. But if it were going to happen — so what? Most of our public schools are massively overfunded and ludicrously inefficient. Why punish taxpayers in the more frugal districts to bail out northeastern suburban schools that spend in excess of $20,000 per student annually?

You really care about the children? Stop raising their taxes. Every $10 billion appropriations hike in 2010 is $10 billion in new taxes for children who are in school today. That’s a lot of cars washed, babies sat, and lawns mowed. Another $10 billion: The kids can’t afford it, Nancy!