Your dude wants to literally abolish the Department of Education, and your contribution is calling us fat.
Say one thing about the right, they sure know their electorate.
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The department of education is mostly just a pass through agency. Standards are set by the states. It doesn't take 4000 employees to divy up funding.
Or have the department of education set nationwide standards like most countries do.
Drive up the intellectual quality of the citizens and watch the country prosper.
Bush 43 tried having nantional standards and instituted profiency tests with no child left behind. Due to there being consequences for poorly performing schools and teachers, Obama capitulated to the teachers union and switched to letting the states determine tests and standards. Public school teachers may want what's best for students but the teachers union does not.
And now we have the insane voucher scheme that will further erode the average educational standards across the country.
If a public school performs poorly they get more money, if a voucher school performs poorly they get closed. In my area voucher schools perform better than public schools and cost half as much.
Affluent white area by any chance?
And those religious "schools" that don't have to confirm to standards. Sure they are churning out real productive, fully functioning adults.
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Most of c/conservative right now:
Let the billionaires ransack the government stealing all my tax dollars for themselves, and also gut the agencies that prevent my cereal from having lead shavings in it.
I try not to be an asshole, but how much of a fucking dumbass can you be. It isn't about government bloat, it never has been, if it WAS they would be tackling the military industrial complex. They instead have made the richest asshole on the planet the defacto president and are letting him ransack the government. How can you not see that they are literally taking your tax dollars and letting musk shovel them directly into his own pockets. If you were on a sinking ship I bet you'd be happy about it.
But they said it was about government bloat! Why would they lie? /s
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Corrupt according to whom? Because if you ask me who is corrupt DJT and Elon Musk top the list of corrupt politicians and business men.
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