 when does an exaggeration become a lie  yay more stimulus money to put us further into debt to help democrats stay in office and our own cheerleaders are near fainting with joy  gov jennifer granholm and sen debbie stabenow were quick to praise the new edujobs bill passed by the house tuesday as part of a stimulus ii package and despite it lacking a legal title among other legislation it will dole out 310 million to michigan public schools with the hopes of saving 4700 teacher jobs hip hip hooray the mea can now continue its campaigning for democrats fullyfunded our class sizes can continue to shrink as more children leave michigan for state with competent leadership you don t want to get the teachers too stressed they may illegally strike again  in response to the passage gov granholm pointed out that the legislation adds nothing to the 13 trillion national deficit since it s funded with cuts to other federal government programs mdash like food stamps the governor insists that the 310 million will be for real people though rather than merely feeding the government school bureaucracy ha schools have become bureaucracies to employ teachers that coincidently teach children or in the case of detroit schools and their horrible graduation rates schools are the sources of future employment for the department of corrections no one believes that the money will actually benefit students it will benefit the teachers union and other democrat constituencies occasionally when they think no one else is listening liberals are honest with each other in the words of bob chanin of the national education association despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas it is not because of the merit of our positions it is not because we care about children and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child nea and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power isn t honesty grand let s transition from honesty to hellip not honesty contrary to what you may think and what common sense dictates i like listening to senator debbie expound on topics so let s see what else she has to say sen stabenow lauded the bill for its ability to keep class sizes down saying it d be the difference between 25 or 50 kids in the classroom of course that s a complete lie the number 4700 is being bandied about as the amount of teacher jobs saved even if the democrats were being honest and almost 5000 teachers lost their jobs that would not double the class size but honesty is not what democrats are known for though pandering to their slavishly union voters is i ll give her the benefit of the doubt and say the statement is ignorant sen stabenow once claimed she could verify global warming because her flights were rougher  so i wouldn t put a lot of stock into what she says but it sure is fun to hear her blather  