Confused about how the Department of Education spreads around your tax dollar? Here's a comparison of No Child Left Behind (Bush, 2001, regular budget funding, Title I) and Race to the Top (Obama, 2009, ARRA money through grants, on top of NCLB). Bush's is a mandate; Obama's is more money for improvement—competition. Sort of a flip flop of how the right and left say they do things.
Until Obama came on the scene, Bush was the biggest all time spender on social programs; but that didn't get him any points with Democrats.
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If RMoney is elected and enacts the draconian Ayn Rand Ryan budget, I think the first bloated government expense to be cut should be librarians.
They should fire all librarians, retroactively ended their cushy taxpayer funded pensions and sell all the libraries and books, putting the proceeds toward deficit reduction.
Then, and only then should RMoney/Ryan end Medicare as we know it, and turn the health of the senior population over to the predatory capitalists.
I'm sure you think this is hilarious, but I have a teacher's pension.
And the difference is??
Both are "wasteful government spending".. right?
Isn't it the fervent right wing and the TeaPublicans that want to eliminate the Department of Education>
Isn't it the Republican Party and the Teavangelicals who want to strip unions, as in Teachers Unions of their rights?
There you go, there's a brilliant party ideology for a retired school teacher to support.
Oh yea, since I'm also retired, let's support a party ideology that is desperately trying to deliver both Medicare and Social Security into the hands of a rapacious private sector.
What I find hilarious is the total absence of critical thought from someone professing academic enlightenment.
Liberals always resort to personal attacks when they have nothing left to say.
I'm not sure where you're going with this, but yes both are wasteful gov't spending, and your astute academic analysis isn't too impressive from my point of view.
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