Texas to blackmailing Obama: Maybe you can just keep your federal funds

Canada Free Press ^ | 05/16/16 | Dan Calabrese

[Sean_Anthony]

Gauntlet thrown

Surely you heard this past weekend about the Obama threat to withhold federal education funds from states who don’t immediately embrace Obama’s transgender bathroom policies. The current shell game of collecting money through the IRS and then sending it back to the states in the form of federal aid is merely a way for the federal government to dictate to the state how they must operate. It’s certainly not a new phenomenon, either. Remember the nationwide 55-mile-per-hour speed limit? That was never a law passed by Congress. It as a gambit of Jimmy Carter to deny federal highway funds to any state that didn’t play ball.

Typically, states meekly capituate to these threats because they don’t want to lose the funds. Obama knows that perfectly well, and figured he could use the threat of withholding federal funds to force his transgender bathroom agenda on the entire nation.

[SMARTY]

perfect! Getting and KEEPING the Fed out of our schools is a giant step in the right direction

[TexasFreeper2009]

getting the feds out of nearly everything is a step in the right direction.

At the first opportunity we need to pass a federal law baring presidents from unilaterally threatening to withhold federal funding if states don’t do ______________.

[dhs12345]

And let the little children starve. Apparently the federal funds are for the free school lunch program. No funds, no free lunch = children starve.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I remember when Jimmy Carter created this department. It was just supposed to coordinate among the various state education departments to collect data and provide it to everyone and enforce certain civil rights matters like desegregation of schools. It has grown into a monster and now Obama has turned it into yet another weapon in the arsenal of Liberal Social Justice and the war on traditional moral values. Any expansion of government is twisted into something evil. This department needs to be shut down.

[17th Miss Regt]

And the users of these programs are predominantly black and Hispanic, so you can say 'children of color starve'.

And don't forget the LGBT children as well! They'll starve, too!

[al_c]

So in order to make sure tannies can pee where they want (as if they aren’t already) our pResident is willing to withhold funds to schools that would provide for things such as food for poor kids? Okay …

[originalbuckeye]

Here’s a novel idea.....why don’t the states just stop sending their Fed taxes to DC? Then they will have the money the state needs. I mean, this money was in Texas to begin with wasn’t it? Isn’t it Texas money that’s just being laundered through the Obama Admin?

[Boogieman]

Just get rid of the income tax. Make the feds beg the states for money instead of the other way around.

[arthurus]

Losing ALL federal funding is the best thing that could happen to local schools and is the one thing that might turn the socialist cog factory back over to education. Federal funding comes with curricula and social requirements that have largely ended actual education and have forced- no, not all forced because local bureaucracies eagerly seek the funding- the local districts to spend more money soing the same things than they would have spent themselves and it is mostly things that local communities did not want to have or even fear and loathe. School districts do not opt out of federal programs and funding because local bureaucrats crave any outside money they can get even if it costs more local money than they are getting and Education bureaucrats' last concern is educating children. What they crave and demand is more money in the system to raise their own incomes and provide more bureaucrats to increase their local empires. More federal money requires more local and state money and that is all good for the bureaucrats even as it turns children into mindless welfareists and Democrats and college snowflakes.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

How about a law preventing the feds from giving any money at all except in case of extreme emergencies to the states?

End the extortion at the root.

[choctaw man]

Texas is like a “whole ‘nother country.’

[bugman]

Exactly, What about ‘the children’? The whole thing is damaging to ‘the children’. I’m not hearing this angle from the Pubbys.

[Ingtar]

Obama wants the children to starve! He’s cutting the budget that feeds Texas school children! (If Obama were Republican, that would be the headline.)

[ncpatriot]

Can u imagine the feds operating without the funds from the States!!!! What would they do? Oh wow, the media would have a fit too. It would be worse than the gov’t shutdown.

Go States Rights!

[Bulwyf]

Need to reduce the size of government by about 90%, that would be a great start.

I like what Texas is doing, I’ve been watching for some time.

I may get a work visa and go so some electrical, then if I like it, see about moving family down.

It’d be good to be around like minded folks.

[dhs12345]

Exactly. Obama hates children.

[dhs12345]

Too bad the states can’t keep the dollars sent to the feds, too.

[jimjohn]

Hey States!

What a great way to get out of those wasteful programs like forced-busing, common core, Title IX, and a whole bunch of other garbage that burn through cash and causes endless frustration.

In other words, just say NO, and it’s a dead issue.
BTW: Still waiting on the Hilldabeast to weight in. Sometime before the Dem Convention would be nice...lol

[unixfox]

We don’t want your money, and you hate our state anyway. So GFY!