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I post on a football board that is decidedly right-leaning. Last night they were bellyaching about the Department of Education. Pardon the profanity but I think I left them sputtering with this reply (examples of their remarks in italics):
I don't think education should be a federal issue, so I'm agin' it no matter how much/little it costs.
Totally agree. I was in full support of Gingrich's notion of getting rid of the Department of Education. Speak about a waste of taxpayer money.
And your reasons for these views are.....? Saying you heard it on Limbaugh isn't good enough.
You two really ought to just say, like all good Republican's, that you are decidedly against anything that doesn't provide immediate and tangible short term financial benefit to the top 1%.
Here let me give you guys some info so you will shut the fu** up about education:
1) The USA, like EVERY OTHER FU***NG CIVILIZED NATION ON THE FU***NG PLANET has a national level department of education.
2) Spending on education at the federal level by the USDE only accounts for around 6% of all education spending in the US.
3) The D of E only accounts for around 1.5% of the federal budget.
4) The Cold War stimulated the first comprehensive effort in Federal education legislation--the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) which came in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik and the Cold War. Created to help ensure that highly trained individuals would be available to help America compete with the Soviet Union in scientific and technical fields.
5) The NDEA included support for loans to college students, the improvement of science, mathematics, and foreign language instruction in elementary and secondary schools, graduate fellowships, foreign language and area studies, and vocational-technical training.
6) A federal level Department of Education insures and insured that certain standards would be met by and for all Americans. Otherwise, you would have had Republican's cheating and sending their kids to school's in Democratic states to take advantage of the higher levels of education without paying for it. Isn't that the Republican way? The Free Lunch?
7) Oh, yeah, and for those of you who blank-stared and slack-jawed incessantly whine about education for real American's, but not trillions in bailouts, subsidies and tax cuts for offshore corporations--f**k you and the lack of objectivity, PATRIOTISM and ability to think for yourself you rode in on.
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