Education is inherently a local affair--between teacher & student. The Feds get into it, to satisfy the Egalitarian/Collectivist mentality, which wants everything uniform; that wants to make sure that a more successful community does not give its children the natural advantage that they would otherwise, quite properly, expect. It also allows those such as Obama, who hate traditional American culture, to throw impediments into our passing on traditional culture--and the specific local nuances of traditional culture.
It also, manifestly, creates an expense burden on State & local institutions--and draws teachers out of the class-room into the bureaucracy, as States ramp up their departments to interact with the Federal, and the communities ramp up their departments to interact with both the increased State & Federal bureaucracies. The whole thing is akin to a "keystone cops" absurdity.
Dear Sync,
first, “Disbanding the EPA and the DoE will not balance the budget”. It is not just disbanding the agencies. It is the deletion of the federal employees’ positions that need to be done at the same time, otherwise, all those employees’ have the opportunity, as i did when the V.A. New Orleans downsized after Hurricane Katrina, could seek to fill any openings across the country in other agencies. That will place some on the retirement rolls, and the rest out in the wind, but in either case, off the unemployment opportunity lists because their position was deleted, and they were not ‘fired’ or ‘displaced’. (Also a blow to the fed employee unions by no ‘participation donations’ by the members.)
second, with that disbanding, think of all that real estate that goes up for sale, since it is no longer needed, and the monies recouped from that. Also, all the interior furnishings go off to auction, electronics and all. More recouped monies. Lastly, all the maintenance costs of the buildings and utilities.