Posted on 03/23/2023 6:37:40 AM PDT by Conservativetpa
The actual purpose is to extract more money and power for the educational industrial complex, via regulatory capture. Public benefit is not a consideration.
As a practical matter, maybe, but the deeper principle is that we should run the federal government in accordance with the Constitution (Yeah, I know, I’m a “right wing extremist” because I want the government to actually follow its own rules).
People misunderstand the nature of our federal government, so badly and so universally so that as a practical matter the actual truth about it is flipped 180 degrees. People think (mainly because of a misunderstanding of the supremacy clause) that the federal government is the rightful sovereign entity in America and that the states derive their authority to govern from the federal government. The opposite is the actual structure— it is the states that are the rightful sovereign entities; the federal government derives its authority to govern from the agreement by the states to voluntarily cede their authority to it.
The kicker is that the states never entirely ceded their sovereign authority (although the federal government has mostly usurped it). They ceded their authority only with regard to a limited list of items, which are spelled out explicitly in the Constitution. These are the enumerated powers, and the list was intended to be exhaustive. This was reinforced by the inclusion of the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights stating that powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.
Well, the power to regulate education is most certainly not one of the powers that was explicitly enumerated in the Constitution as a power of the federal government. Therefore it is reserved to the states or the people. Of course, the federal government now freely ignores the enumerated powers and the Tenth Amendment, so we have a Department of Education. We have a pretty good Constitution- we really should try using it some time and see what happens.
He knows how the scam works
How many GOP SENATORS will it take? More than 60 I’m sure. We will have to crucify and talk $hit about what these institutions do. The NEA(arts) budget was cut but it’s still there waiting for a raise.
His dad was a millionaire and decided to go into politics, after his stint as Superintendent, he became a State Senator, and eventually majority leader..............
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gaetz
Matt Gaetz had all the inside info from his father how the system works he wants to clean it up?.
It should be 86ed
Many of the institutions are parasites with no value time to get rid of useless programs and the buddy system.
This vote to end the U.S. Department of Education (DE) is hopefully just a formality.
Otherwise, and militia training aside, since the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate education, a vote to not end DE is arguably an open act of rebellion against the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, punishable under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
"The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphasis added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof [emphases added]. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
If this were a better world, until the states wise up and repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments, ending the DE and other constitutionally undefined federal agencies should lower federal taxes too imo, DE alone cutting unconstitutional, unaccountable federal taxes by roughly $68 billion annually.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Patriots, the bottom line is this imo. What is your threshold of “pain” for peacefully stopping unconstitutionally big state and federal governments controlled by bully, constitutionally undefined political parties, from oppressing the people under their boots?
The inevitable remedy for ongoing, post-17A ratification, corrupt political party treason (imo)...
All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.
If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.
If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.
With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.
In the meanwhile, I'm not holding my breath for significant MAGA legislation to appear in the first 100 days of new term for what may still prove to be another RINO-controlled House.
In other words, primarying RINOs in 2022 was hopefully just for practice. Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying for 2024 elections.
Great idea. But I don’t see it happening ... yet.
Irrelevant and will go nowhere... If and when the republicans ever get control of the house, Senate and presidency they’ll never brin it up, fix the border or anything else.
That’s why it’s called government, nothing ever gets done. It may get started but never completed.
There is a question few are asking.
It begins with the words, Why are the Feds involved in...?
Why are the Feds involved in education? In baby formula? In the railroads? In real estate? In medicine? On and on.
There is a question few are asking.
It begins with the words, Why are the Feds involved in...?
Why are the Feds involved in education? In baby formula? In the railroads? In real estate? In medicine? On and on.
Is there any chance this could become law in this administration?
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