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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Your dude wants to literally abolish the Department of Education, and your contribution is calling us fat.
Say one thing about the right, they sure know their electorate.
redut_nl@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 week ago
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You gonna keep posting this without understanding what it says, huh?
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The department of education is mostly just a pass through agency. Standards are set by the states. It doesn’t take 4000 employees to divy up funding.
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Or have the department of education set nationwide standards like most countries do.
Drive up the intellectual quality of the citizens and watch the country prosper.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Bush 43 tried having nantional standards and instituted profiency tests with no child left behind. Due to there being consequences for poorly performing schools and teachers, Obama capitulated to the teachers union and switched to letting the states determine tests and standards. Public school teachers may want what’s best for students but the teachers union does not.
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And now we have the insane voucher scheme that will further erode the average educational standards across the country.
redut_nl@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 week ago
Default respond to any cost saving by the left is “nooooo”. This makes them highly irresponsible. Glad they are not in charge anymore in the US.
Now change the EU. We’re still f#cked.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The budget Deficit has increased under Republicans and decreased under Democrats consistently for decades.
How you can still think Republicans save you money is beyond insane. No child left behind really did a number on the populace.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Trump R -$6.612 trillion
Obama D -$6.781 trillion
Bush R -$3.293 trillion
Clinton D +$63 billion
Bush R -$1.036 trillion
Reagan R -$1.412 trillion
Carter D -$253 billion
Ford R -$181 billion
Nixon R -$70 billion
Johnson D -$36 billion
Kennedy D -$18 billion
Eisenhower R -$15 billion
Truman D -$5 billion
Roosevelt D -$194 billion
Hoover R -$5 billion
redut_nl@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 week ago
On both side they’ve failed horribly. I am not a republican, not even American. The main thing I like about DT’s presidency is DOGE. That is a huge game changer. Love everything about it. 👍
First time in years that I think common sense is coming back in the world. 🤷♂️
FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“the left” has no default response to any costs saving.
“Noooooooo” as a reply comes only when a destruction of the modern state is acted masking it as “cost saving”.
It’s like a doctor prescribing suicide to solve a patient illness. It works, the illness is gone, but the patient is not feeling well afterwards.
But this is too much of a complex reasoning for a libertarian to understand, I get that. Oh well, back to you play-doh eating contest you go
Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Sorry, I didn’t really that funding musicals in Ireland was core to the functioning of the American government. My bad!
/s in case you couldn’t tell.