Annapolis, MD – Governor Martin O’Malley issued this statement following President Obama’s enactment of H.R. 1586, the Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act, which will bring more than $450 million to Maryland for families who depend on Medicaid and to local school departments to keep teachers in the classroom.
“I want to thank Maryland’s Congressional Delegation for these important investments, including Senators Mikulski and Cardin, Leader Hoyer, Congressmen Cummings, Kratovil, Ruppersburger, Sarbanes, Van Hollen, and Congresswoman Edwards. This vote ensured that states like Maryland are not unnecessarily sent backwards as they work through the beginning of this recovery process. These important investments will help keep teachers in our classrooms and provide important Medicaid funding for families who depend on them, while not adding to the federal deficit.
“This issue is too important to fall victim to partisan politics. State and local communities have been hit especially hard by this recession. With so many Americans unemployed or struggling to get by, states have been forced to balance their budgets with fewer tax dollars. The Education and Medicaid Jobs bill will ensure that teachers in our classrooms do not fall victim to the uncertainties of a recession.”
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This just gives O'Malley and Politians the oppurtunity to keep on spending and taxing without having to do their job which is make the hard decisiions. They need to quit ignoring the fact they need to eliminate the top level jobs that are duplicates and make the ones left to do their job instead of mooching with high salaries and ridiculous benefits and retirement. As for as the Teachers if they have not been let go by now they have a job for this school year. Their salaries, benefits and high retirement is costing them jobs not the economy. They do not want to suffer like everyone else. They, Politians and Teachers, need to come back into reality.
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