Bill to Shut U.S. Education Department Introduced in Congress

The New American ^ | 02.08.47 | Alex Newman

[wally_bert]

I don’t have any sympathy for those in make work gov-co jobs.

There are some good people in gov-co who do useful things. The department of education needs to be closed down.

[adorno]

Oh, no!

Think of the children.

Kids are going to die.

Kids are going to not eat. Kids are not going to learn.

Parents are going to have to be more responsible.

Teachers are going to lose so many of their perks.

Teachers unions will not have much power in Washington.

Think of all the demonstrations. Think of all the marches that will now have to take place. Think of all the marchers that will wear out their shoes from pacing back and forth.

Kids won’t be able to spell, and kids wont learn math, and ids won’t be able to play basketball anymore.

Oh, the humanity!

[vette6387]

Department of Education

Budget (2016) $68 billion
Staffing: 4,400

It isn’t big, but it does a lot of damage. Out it should go! And do it while Jimmah Cahatah is still above room temperature so he can see one of his “brilliant ideas” go by the wayside before he takes a well-deserved dirt nap.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Let's watch how Paul Ryan allows this to wither on the vine through procedural obfuscation and trickery.

[Mom MD]

Its a good start. Too bad its probably DOA

[eartick]

Since the Reagan administration, Republicans at all levels of government have paid lip-service to shutting down the unconstitutional bureaucracy. But they now control the White House and both houses of Congress, giving the GOP and conservative Americans a historic opportunity to follow through.

Call me a skeptic but again all we will see is lip service from this Congress with leaders like Ryan and McConnell. It will be lucky to see the light of day.

[vette6387]

“Another stupid “make work” agency.”

But then aren’t most of them? And the rest of them are inefficient and run by incompetents who see them as simply “jobs programs” for Liberal a$$holes bent on the destruction of the country. Thus far, I see Tillerson (State), Mattis (Defense),
and a couple of others as keepers, but I think unless he shows us something in the next few weeks, AG Sessions should be fired.

[Undecided 2012]

Funny u sad that. I call my Mom 85 a few times a week because she’s housebound and I’m way out of state but my other brothers and sisters do who are very local tend to her in the important things. The one time, I must of been on speaker phone or whatever and my sister says in the background, “but Trump’s shutting down the EPA.” And then another time very recently, in the background I can hear her say, “Danielle (our niece) is going to lose her job because they are shutting down the windmills.”

My response was and with libbies you have to be blunt. That is BS, Trump is cutting the EPA 30% and as far as Danielle, Trump has never mentioned windmills, Exelon shutting down or cutting down their windmill installations is a company decision.”

I’m all for not subsidizing any energy especially ethanol.

[vette6387]

“Go, Congress. Trump is watching.”

But sadly, Ryan and Mc Scrotumneck are “watching” along with their dickhead buddies in the Congress who are trying against all odds to return “things” to the way they were when RINOs got paid for doing nothing.

[liberalism is suicide]

Yipeee! Shut the socialist monstrosity down.

[Popman]

-——You don’t need a bill. You file a lawsuit simply stating that Dept of Ed is unconstitutional and in violation of the 10th Amendment.——

There isn’t any court in the land that would rule in your favor....

I’m not sure what precedence you would use to declare it unconstitutional since it’s a cabinet dept operationing since 1980 signed into law under the peanut farmer and was a dept since 1867 as part of the interior dept.

[vette6387]

“My response was and with libbies you have to be blunt. That is BS, Trump is cutting the EPA 30% and as far as Danielle, Trump has never mentioned windmills, Exelon shutting down or cutting down their windmill installations is a company decision.”

But federal subsidies are what keeps windmill companies in business. If wind energy was an effective solution that gave us a decent chunk of the electricity we need, it wouldn’t take a federal subsidy (and it’s freeloading attendant bureaucracy) to make it happen.
I look around here where I live and every school and public office building now has covered parking courtesy of the subsidized federal solar panel business. Sure would be nice if I could have the government erect a portico in my yard with solar panels on it giving me a shady place to park my cars, and “free” electricity.

[txrefugee]

It’s way overdue. Jimmy Carter signed it into law in Oct. 1979 in the last gasps of his failed presidency, and it didn’t begin operation until May, 1980. Pres. Reagan should have murdered it in its crib, but he did not have the courage that Pres. Trump has.

Many children would have had the benefit of a decent education without government stupidity getting in the way, such as transgender bathrooms and Common Core weirdness. But alas, that worthless agency has lingered all this time while the education of American children has gone from bad to worse. The only thing that’s gone up is the cost.

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Think of all the demonstrations. Think of all the marches that will now have to take place. Think of all the marchers that will wear out their shoes from pacing back and forth.

Great timing, Representative, the school year is just over, and allah dem teachers can go to DC to protest!

[cpforlife.org]

We don’t have a “U.S. Department of Education”.

We have a U.S. Department of liberal indoctrination. It is a cancer.

Ending it would go a long way in returning us to a Free Republic.

[GnuThere]

Get it to the state level and below. Drain the progressive education swamp.
Some states will still be progressive Commies, but at least free up the ones who aren’t.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

AG Sessions should have remained in the U.S. Senate. Trump needs a better AG without baggage.

[Carl Vehse]

Having submitted the bill to end the DoEd, GOP House members will scam conservatives around the country for contributions to their PACs, knowing full well that the bill will never survive the gauntlet of committees.

The financial con game will probably be moderately successful.

[Undecided 2012]

u are exactly right, but I think there has been so much fed money pushing it that in some places the companies can grow without fed freebees.
Let’s face it coal is done. Natural gas has replaced it. Wind and Solar farms need infrastructure to deliver it to where it needs to be. If it’s profitable without freebees then so be it.