white-house-will-propose-merging-education-labor-departments

NY Post ^

[GotMojo]

President Donald Trump wants to merge the federal departments of Labor and Education in what would be the biggest bureaucratic shake-up in recent history, published reports said Wednesday.

[BeauBo]

The new Department of Major Democratic Party Field Organizations.

Teachers Unions and all other unions.

[BeauBo]

“Better yet, get back to the proper role of the federal government”

Reorganize them along the lines in the constitution - Treasury, Justice, Defense, and a catchall for the rest, like Interior.

[41Thunder]

Not a good idea. Both are bloated Government agencies and should be pared down or eliminated altogether.

[hinckley buzzard]

Since half of all federal bureaucracy is redundant and nonproductive, merge the two departments; then reduce the manpower through attrition by 50% and requiring the remnant to actually put in a full days work-- in effect eliminating the Dept of Education, which cost in the neighborhood of 80 billion per year and does nothing.

[Rastus]

Neither does President Trump.

[minnesota_bound]

I remember when HEW was broken up in the 1970’s and the Education dept was given $10 billion to start... It grew from there and today the kids are dumber then ever.

[rfp1234]

Oh, the HEW Manatee...

[BeauBo]

Wall Street Journal reports that this is part of a broader proposal to reorganize Government, expected to be released tomorrow (Thursday, 21 June).

[trebb]

Why not blow up both of them? These are things the states should handle.

Trump works in reality and takes the steps he can - this would be a great move and may actually be doable.

[DoodleDawg]

Since half of all federal bureaucracy is redundant and nonproductive, merge the two departments; then reduce the manpower through attrition by 50% and requiring the remnant to actually put in a full days work-- in effect eliminating the Dept of Education, which cost in the neighborhood of 80 billion per year and does nothing.

The current budget for Labor and Education is about $80 billion so they would have to do away with both entirely to realize your savings. Also there is very little overlap between what Education does and what Labor does, so about the only cost savings to be realized there is the cost of one cabinet secretary salary.

[Chickensoup]

The current budget for Labor and Education is about $80 billion so they would have to do away with both entirely to realize your savings. Also there is very little overlap between what Education does and what Labor does, so about the only cost savings to be realized there is the cost of one cabinet secretary salary.
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80 Billion Dollars!

taxpayers are enslaved how many days to pay these drones?

Every time I see a government number like this I think of it as tax payer enslavement.

[Chickensoup]

so 80 billion divided by the federal tax on average hourly wage of 25 dollars which is about oh say 10% equals 32 million work hours per wage slave.

and that is only the half who pays taxes.

[usconservative]

I hope this proposal brings back internships in the trades and trade schools for those who don't believe a four year college education is for them and prefer/are adept at some level in working with their hands and their brains.

We need more tradesmen/craftsmen in this country to be "home grown" rather than cheap-labor express imported.

[lurk]

The table saw is turned off for the pic. You can see the teeth of the blade, which you cannot see with a spinning blade. The man is a fool not to have a push stick.
Reminds me of a hot model using a Craftsman router in an ad ...pushing it the wrong direction.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

bump

[NorthMountain]

"Merge"?

I think it's spelled "A B O L I S H" ...