Not to mention getting the federal government out of education entirely, it is a states’ issue.
That is absolutely correct, and speaking here as a teacher at various levels.
The human nature of it is that citizens will still insist on education in any case, but why the federal government has anything to do with it is incomprehensible. The US Constitution says nothing about it. And not that long ago (fifty years) the Federal Gov't had very little to do with education - the US Dept of Education came about somewhere in the mid eighties - well after the United States, ALONE, put men on the Moon.
The US Dept of Education is the perfect example of centralized federal gov't that is simply not needed (nor authorized by the Constitution).
Re: EPA, I wouldn't outright agree because of certain venues in which it does reasonable work, the nation's fresh water quality for example which transcends State jurisdictions. It's just that it has become a political animal to push certain agenda's. Cut it and set priorities.
The Defense thing is complicated and over my head; but one obvious thing is Homeland Security, which I don't think was ever needed, and is now an internal federal force like the SSS, and Janet Napolitano who has no business whatsoever, and is actually sinister, being in national security. The US Coast Guard also simply has no business being under a separate dept from that of DOD - it is "guarding" the coast is it not?
DHS is one of GWB's terrible mistakes; if there was a reactive need for a "Homeland Security" organization then sunset it. There was an FBI was there not? It is almost like "they" used 9/11 as an excuse to establish an additional internal police force in our nation.
The United States federal government, authority and revenues, could easily be cut thirty percent with no adverse ramifications to any of us. Support him or not, Mitch Daniels: "you will be amazed at how much government you will never miss."
It is now a matter of priorities and values, and responsibility and citizenship is losing to the LEFT.
Johnny Suntrade
WE HAVE A WINNER JOHNNY!
“the US Dept of Education came about somewhere in the mid eighties - well after the United States, ALONE, put men on the Moon.”
1979, Carter.
Alos, we didn’t put a man on the moon “alone”. We had the Germans designing the rockets. We had the French designing sensor systems and other space components. We had other nations providing space tracking around the world. We had many nations helping. It no doubt was primarily US lead, but we didn’t do it alone.