GOP lawmaker proposes abolishing Department of Education

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/318310-gop-lawmaker-proposes-abolishing-department-of-education

GOP lawmaker proposes abolishing Department of Education
By Cristina Marcos - 02/07/17 02:03 PM EST


On the same day the Senate confirmed President Trump’s secretary of Education pick by a historically narrow margin, a House Republican introduced legislation to abolish the entire department Betsy DeVos will lead.

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s bill is only a page long, after merely stating the Department of Education would terminate on Dec. 31, 2018.

Massie believes that policymakers at the state and local levels should be responsible for education policy, instead of a federal agency that’s been in place since 1980.

"Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children's intellectual and moral development. States and local communities are best positioned to shape curricula that meet the needs of their students,” Massie said in a statement.

Former President Reagan called for dismantling the Department of Education, along with the Department of Energy. But that proposal ultimately never came to fruition.

Seven other Republicans signed on to Massie’s bill: House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (Utah) and Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Jody Hice (Ga.), Walter Jones (N.C.) and Raúl Labrador (Idaho).

The Senate confirmed DeVos earlier Tuesday on a 51-50 vote following an all-night session forced by Democrats unanimously opposed to her nomination.

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Pence is the first vice president in history to break a tie on a Cabinet nominee. Tuesday also marked the first time a vice president has broken a tie in the Senate since 2008.

[Turbineguy]

1. Under the circumstances

that just might be an excellent idea!

[Native]

3. Perhaps that was the plan all along?

Hire a moron so there's no real difference between the two.

[Turbineguy]

4. The GOP wants us to be a failed state.

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But at least they will be in charge!

[Takket]

2. Well at least kids in the blue states would still have a chance

[Solly Mack]

5. The GOP, and people like DeVos, have wanted an ignorant America for a long time now.

And they have made great headway over the years.

The more ignorant people are the easier it is for them to vote against their own best interest.

They want a believe what we tell you citizenry that can't think for itself.

They want us obedient and compliant, without thought to fight back.

They want worker-bees who work themselves to death for little money, and to never complain about the conditions.

They want conformity to an ideology of theocracy, nationalism, and hate - which they dress up as "traditional American values".

With DeVos as SoE, and the constant pushing to destroy public education, America will continue to slide into a Trumptopian nightmare. For Trump is, in part, a direct result of the past attacks on public education, science, critical thinking, facts, and uncomfortable truths.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Teach your children well.

[Freethinker65]

6. Hmm. Might be a way to win back some governorships?

[Rex]

8. Never mind the fact we have great public schools compared with the rest of the world

The GOP is THE anti-intellectual party and just decide we all should be as fucking dumb as them!