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.
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jimbolauski@lemm.ee 1 week agoThe 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.
redut_nl@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 week ago
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
The budget Deficit has increased under Republicans and decreased under Democrats consistently for decades.
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
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Is like to point out that most of Obama’s increase in budget was pushed through under Bush (because budgets are passed the prior year). And he brought it down from that starting point over his two terms. Trump immediately jacked it back up from what he inherited, and Biden decreased it again.
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. 🤷♂️
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Not a single iota of common sense exists in this administration. They’re all crooks and conmen. It’s astonishing a nonsensical has fallen for such an obvious grift while not being the target of their propoganda. That takes an extra special kind of gullible
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.
FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s called soft power. Basically an investment in presenting the best part of your culture to others hoping that it will attract people to your ideals and idea of society to ease collaboration with othe peoples.
But you do understand the reasoning behind an investment with your superior intellect, I’m sure.
And I’m also sure that you do understand that where an investment is missing others will provide that investment. Promoting their culture in lieu of others.
I’m putting /s explicitly because I’m not sure you’d get my sarcasm, I don’t think you could understand these subtle reasonings
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.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 1 week ago
If a public school performs poorly they get more money, if a voucher school performs poorly they get closed. In my area voucher schools perform better than public schools and cost half as much.