Barack Hussein Obama Saves The World

All those teacher's jobs that the Obama-Pelosi-Reid axis of evil claimed to have saved last week never were in peril.

The reality, as the Education Intelligence Agency's Mike Antonucci noted, is that "it's common practice for school districts to overestimate the number of teachers that will be laid off in advance of budgets being set, and in advance of the school year." So the vast majority of those dire warnings of 100,000 teachers being laid off were mostly just hot air.

And here's something else to ponder: If it cost $10 billion to save 100,000 teachers' jobs, they are each being paid $100,000 a year. Since the national average teacher salary is just over $54,000 a year, somebody -- federal bureaucrats? -- is making a bundle on overhead.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/New-fairy-tales-from-Obamaland-468639-100577999.html#ixzz0wgLXATxW