GOP Congress Bankrolls Questionable Education Department

Accuracy in Academia ^ | May 10, 2018 | Malcolm A. Kline

[Academiadotorg]

Perhaps the risk of being called heartless is making them headless. John Stossel of Reason Magazine claims U. S. Department of Education (DOE) Secretary Betsy DeVos is keeping hers.

"It now spends $193.1 billion a year," he writes. "DeVos proposed a mere $9 billion in cuts." (Only in Washington is $9 billion "mere.")

"But nothing goes away in Washington, no matter how wasteful," Stossel points out. "The Republican Congress ignored her proposed cuts and increased her budget by $2 billion."

Stossel is absolutely right. I’ve read 30 years worth of hearings, Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) reports and even inspector general reports from the agency itself that show that just about every program it runs is an expensive failure.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

And, of course, everything that is bad about the Department of Government Indoctrination Education is the fault of the current Secretary - or her boss.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They bankrolled NPR and PBS too.
Makes me wonder why I ever voted for them.

[WayneS]

There is nothing “questionable” about the U.S. Department of Education.

For instance, there is no question that it has been a giant CF since day one.

[momincombatboots]

Ditto.. over a year later.. no wall, trillions in chuck n nancy deals anti 2A laws. I hope everyone wonders why every liberal program was founded.

[polymuser]

“They bankrolled NPR and PBS too. Makes me wonder why I ever voted for them.”

No chit, but there’s no viable alternative, yet, to D or R (two sides of the same coin). I do hope we change that in our lifetime. Would love a true Constitutional Conservative Party.

[Pontiac]

They bankrolled NPR and PBS too.

You forgot the National Endowment for the Arts which would be more correctly the National Endowment for Profanity.

[Retvet]

We continuance an Eduction Department we have a communist Indoctrination Department. Khrushchev plan is in full effect.

[upchuck]

Link to the original John Stossel written piece in reason magazine:

http://reason.com/archives/2018/05/09/why-the-left-hates-betsy-devos/

[upchuck]

Last paragraph of Stossel's reason article:

"We need to do something different," says DeVos. "This country is on a trajectory to failure, ultimately, if we do not turn around how we educate kids."

Agree 100%. Many of the kids in early to mid 20s know nothing.