Posted on 07/16/2021 9:58:01 AM PDT by rktman
The so-called “squad” member Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) is set to introduce a “Green New Deal for Public Schools” in the House on Friday, which would cost $1.43 trillion over ten years.
The far-left Democrat’s proposal would spend $446 billion on Climate Capital Facilities Grants toward retrofitting the nation’s public school buildings. It would also give major investments in expanding social services and provide a curriculum upgrade in school districts with low-income communities.
The proposal would also include: $250 billion in Resource Block Grants, to help “fund staffing increases, expanded social service programming, and curriculum development at high-need schools”; $100 million for an Educational Equity Planning Grants Pilot Program which will “encourage neighboring Local Education Agencies to form regional consortia”; and $695 billion over 10 years for Title I and IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) increases.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Well they stole the US so they can do whatever they want to it
Why teach the kids to read and write? We are led by psychopaths.
NEA and construction interest giveaway, with rake-offs for intermediaries and consultants.
You do know to get the Green New Deal going they have to tear down everything and hire black owned companies to rebuild
Time for seperation of school and state.
But Pee Lousy said,
“We can’t afford 25 billion for the wall”.
I didn’t see a single thing “green” in that except all the tax dollars that are being wasted.
Teacher raises? How about giving them a raise when their students can read past, “See Spot run.”
The education-industrial complex and its needs for constant political payoffs is now the biggest hog at the trough.
The nation could fund a lot on her ice cream budget.
Here in Florida, schools needed by the children who will live in new housing developments are funded by impact fees.
The developers pass these impact fees onto the home buyers, who, if they rent out the house, effectively pass on the costs to their renters.
I object to the debt on behalf of my grandchildren.
“curriculum upgrade in school districts with low-income communities”
Here in the State of Florida, public K-12 schools are required to provide “uniform” education under our state constitution. Why would any particular Florida school district “with low-income communities” need special funding for curriculum upgrades?
“Climate Capital Facilities Grants toward retrofitting the nation’s public school buildings”
Schools have lower occupancy utilization rates than retail stores. Prior to Covid, Wal-Marts have traditionally been open in my part of Florida 24 hours a day except for some major holidays.
Good for him.
The COVID relief bills when trump was president and then under Biden have already dumped mega dump truck loads of federal money to public schools in all the states. The schools have been spending on all sorts of stuff, salaries goodies.
To do another mega money dump is insane not needed and bound to turn the US into Venezuela-broke & socialist.
More taxpayer funded schemes that will nothing other than to piss our money away!!! Politicians buddies will be the only ones to benefit!
President Thomas Jefferson had officially said the following about federal government involvement in INTRAstate schooling in a State of the Union address. Jefferson had respected 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty by indicating that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution to give Congress new powers to tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes, something that the states have never done.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
“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 [emphases added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806."
"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.
Justice Joseph Story later reflected on Jefferson's words, also indicating that the states have never expressly constitutional given the feds the specific power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling.
"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." — Justice Joseph Story, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
In other words, the unaccountable, vote-buying "federal" funding that misguided Bowman seemingly wants to spend in the name of public schools is arguably state revenues that corrupt Congress has stolen from the states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
“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.
The remedy for federal lawmakers who don't seem to understand the federal government's constitutionally limited powers any better than the voters who elected them do.
Patriots need to primary federal lawmakers and tell them to try to get elected to the state governments so that they can use state powers, as the founder had intended, to experiment with their socialistic fantasies, depending on the threshold of pain of a state's taxpayers.
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
/eyeroll.
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