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Michele Bachmann: Why do we need a Department of Education, anyway?
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| 09/05/2011
| TINA KORBE
Posted on 09/05/2011 6:20:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Dept of Education was Carter’s baby. I think its safe now to throw that baby out!
To: Steelfish
I like Mrs. Bachmann, but she is a little late. Mrs. Palin brought these subject up a couple weeks ago in Iowa. It great seeing her changing the debate into things that really will mnake a difference. No matter, the more conservative voices the better. Sarah is the trend setter, she will become a candidate, she will dominate the remaining debates and she will win the Presidency!
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posted on
09/05/2011 8:14:56 PM PDT
by
mazz44
To: SeekAndFind
It isn't Constitutional; however, the primary reason to abolish te DOE is that it is a monster money eater, a labyrinth of groups jockeying for position and pork.
Every time educational failure is mentioned, the Dems answer is to throw more money at it. This money NEVER gets to the classroom. Instead, it goes to hiring more administrators that are straitly PC (they're EXTREME, but don't tell them), non thinkers, programmed little robots--I say little advisedly, not to describe girth or weight, but their brain.
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posted on
09/05/2011 8:19:24 PM PDT
by
vaudine
To: Signalman
I recall back in the 70s, once you graduated high school, you could save a bit and buy a HOUSE, or a CAR. Not anymore.
To: SeekAndFind
Good question! We don’t need it.
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posted on
09/05/2011 8:23:39 PM PDT
by
pallis
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
09/05/2011 8:27:31 PM PDT
by
B-Cause
(The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money - Thatcher)
To: SeekAndFind
"Why do we need a Department of Education, anyway?" =======================================================
To keep God out of our schools and teach that Heather Has Two Mommys?
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posted on
09/05/2011 8:30:33 PM PDT
by
Manic_Episode
(Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
To: ClearCase_guy
Dept of Labor? Dept of HEW? who needs that? not anyone
who works for a living.
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posted on
09/05/2011 8:33:56 PM PDT
by
RitchieAprile
(breaking wind to the East..)
To: SeekAndFind
It can be gotten rid of, but it must be done in a very Machiavellian way - First, remove it as a single department and put it under the auspices of say, Health and Human Services. Then, slowly delete the positions within that department.
Just bleed it dry, over the course of a few years.
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posted on
09/05/2011 8:48:19 PM PDT
by
mkleesma
(`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
To: Pat4ever
Do not need Dept. of Education just the Board of Education applied to the seat of learning!!
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posted on
09/05/2011 9:07:30 PM PDT
by
handy old one
(If you play in nature be prepared to be played with by nature!)
To: Tex-Con-Man
If they can't even defund the CPB, how in the hell are they gonna eliminate the Dept of Education? HMMMMMMM???? Sad isn't it. There was a tax from the Spanish American war that was only recently eliminated (about 7 years ago).
I would say at this moment, probably 85% of the Republicans in Congress would be totally opposed to bold moves such as eliminating the Unconstitutional Dept of Mis-Education.
I don't hold out much hope for real reform, unless we have a total economic collapse (which no one wants)
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posted on
09/05/2011 9:34:16 PM PDT
by
sand88
(Sarah Palin announces: Aug 12, Opps!! didn't happen then, but soon will :)
To: StraightDave
We are in the computer age... stop the brick and mortar approach. Give every student a computer. Use the best teachers in Webinars... fire the rest. Require school attendance 2 days a week for social interaction and eliminate the need to build more schools. Cut school taxes about 80% ! Ok stop proposing solutions that would make our Founders proud :) don't you know government is our Federal family now/sarc
If we had a truly free society, it would likely quickly evolve as you state.
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posted on
09/05/2011 9:37:05 PM PDT
by
sand88
(Sarah Palin announces: Aug 12, Opps!! didn't happen then, but soon will :)
To: Steelfish
Reagan should take lesson from Obama and selectively apply the law and do it unilaterally from the executive
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posted on
09/05/2011 9:54:33 PM PDT
by
4rcane
To: GeronL
To: ClearCase_guy
Yep. Education and Energy were Carter boondoggles and EPA was Nixons. All are leftist departments that do more harm than good.
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posted on
09/05/2011 10:33:19 PM PDT
by
Mogollon
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson)
To: SeekAndFind
I really like her position on the issues :)
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posted on
09/05/2011 10:36:06 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
To: All
Bachmann came on strong in the DeMint forum: sharp and articulate. For those who missed it, look for the live thread or check online for video. It was much more revealing than the typical media debates.
Since he had to return to Texas for the wildfire emergency and couldn't make the DeMint forum, I wanted to say at the townhall with Rep. Tim Scott Monday morning, Perry echoed similar views.
Preferring local control, he said while the Dept. of Education might stay around merely as a "repository of best practices" it hadn't educated one child nor had the Dept of Energy created any energy.
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posted on
09/06/2011 2:47:09 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Will racist demagogue Andre Carson be censured by the House?)
To: sickoflibs
A president can't do it without Congress. The executive is limited, not all powerful, even over the agencies and departments in its branch. You wouldn't know it with Obama, however.
Early in his first term Reagan actually tried abolish of the Dept of Education through Congress and, obviously, didn't succeed.
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posted on
09/06/2011 2:52:26 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Will racist demagogue Andre Carson be censured by the House?)
To: SeekAndFind
Liking HER MORE, AND MORE..
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posted on
09/06/2011 3:45:48 AM PDT
by
JSDude1
(December 18, 2010 the Day the radical homosexual left declared WAR on the US Military.)
To: SeekAndFind
"They take the money from the states via Federal Tax dollars, and REDISTRIBUTE them via grants back to the states based on where they see there is the most need." ...and they do all of that for just $38 BILLION. I may be naive, but I think I could do it for only $35 BILLION!
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posted on
09/06/2011 7:09:01 AM PDT
by
Baynative
(The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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