HOW ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION?
Annual budget: $121 billion
Since the department’s creation in 1979, trillions of tax dollars have yielded declining test scores as American education has fallen behind many other countries. One expert recently testified: “It now costs three times as much to provide essentially the same education as we provided in 1970.” The more we spend, the less we get.
ELIMINATE IT. We survived without this department prior to Jimmy Carter, we can survive without it.
The federal government’s own Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified $125 billion in government waste that can be cut without hurting anybody.
Obama’s federal government is slated to spend $3.6 trillion this year. That is $3,600,000,000,000. The supposedly draconian sequester will reportedly cut that by $85 billion, which is just 2%. In fact, as Mark Levin pointed out in his show, the actual cuts for this year from that level are $44 billion, which is 1% of the budget.
That won’t eviscerate anything. It won’t stop emergency responders from saving victims of disasters, won’t shut down the border patrol, won’t mean longer delays at airports without security or air traffic control, won’t lay off FBI agents, won’t stop criminal prosecutions, won’t terminate thousands of teachers, won’t leave hundreds of thousands of Americans without health care, won’t “add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls.”