For Republicans, Killing Unions Is More Important Than Improving Education

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If you care about the future of education in the U.S. then the Republican Presidential debates have been a massive disappointment. The problem is that the candidates all believe the same thing, so there is nothing to debate. In fact, through two debates, education has only come up once. Unfortunately, even when education was mentioned it was used to attack the few candidates that support Common Core instead of any sort of substantive discussion.

Despite being generally uninformed on the topic, Campbell Brown is one of the few people asking presidential candidates to define their positions. To no one's surprise, when the six leading Republican candidates were put on the spot they all coalesced around the same tired "solutions" the Republican Party has been pushing for decades -- more charter schools, vouchers, merit pay, ending tenure and killing unions.

But perhaps the biggest reason these candidates have been so hesitant to make education reform the core of their candidacy is that they are aware that each of these ideas has been a failure when put into practice.

For example, Chris Christie recently said that teachers unions "are the single most destructive force in public education in America." The reality is, the issue here is not that teachers unions are bad for education but rather that teachers' unions are bad for Republican education reform ideas. So instead of falsely claiming data exists to support their errant positions, Republicans have resorted to attacking the unions that stand in the way of the Republican plan to turn America's children into widgets that their corporate sugar daddies can profit from. For Republicans, education represents the next great opportunity to bilk the federal government out of billions of dollars while pretending to have American's best interests in mind, much like they have done for decades with the military industrial complex that has the U.S. spending more on defense than the next ten countries combined.


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[ruffburr]

1. Republicans-

The party of war and indentured servitude, Not surprising, These are the only terrorists we really need to worry about

[riversedge]

2. Just look at Walker's red WI--and you will see that the

headline is true!

[Fumesucker]

3. Why would Republicans want to improve education when they say such stupid shit?

[Stuart G]

4. Do you know the real reason they want to kill the unions?..10 simple words..

Unions are the single largest contributor to the Democratic Party

That is it and that is what it has always been. nothing else..

.They have created the lies in order to support the argument. In the late 70s the right wing began to make it a goal to kill the unions and destroy the financial base of the Democratic Party. Regan started it, and the republicans have kept it going.