Repeal of the Dept of Education!

[drillsgt]

Dept. of Education created: 1979, and began operating in 1980.

Republicans have been pledging to eliminate it since 1980 and submitting bills to eliminate it not long after.

It would be great to see, but this history causes me to keep my optimism in check.

They'd have to do it gradually to avoid all the 'Republicans are throwing people out of work talk', rely on attrition and early retirements, inter-department transfers etc.

 

[NHT3]

Didn't read anything other than the title and I'm in.. While we are at it let's delete the Department of Energy. They have failed their stated mission as miserably as the Department of Education.

 

[Shadow01]

Well, bye Dept of Defense

State militias seemed to work well in this nation’s first war.

 

[KLB]

State militias seemed to work well in this nation’s first war.

I don't believe we could win a war with state militias anymore. I also do not believe the Dept of Defense doesn't need to be blown up and redone.

 

[HoughMade]

They'd have to do it gradually to avoid all the 'Republicans are throwing people out of work talk', rely on attrition and early retirements, inter-department transfers etc.

Well...40+ years is pretty gradual.

 

[HoughMade]

State militias seemed to work well in this nation’s first war.

Militias had their moments, but the Continental Army, proper carried the heaviest load, by far. Often, the militias fired a volley or 2 then ran away, or broke easily when the British charged. They were not well organized and turned the tide only a few times in battle.

 

[Twangbanger]

Well, bye Dept of Defense

I'd like to see a single-year contest imposed on the Department of Foreign Meddling: whichever service branch shoots down the most foreign spy assets this year gets to keep their budget next year. Second place gets cut 25%, third place 50%, fourth and down get eliminated, and all cut-ees get their lost budgets and missions re-awarded to first place.

Oh yeah...CIA gets to play, too.

Bet the folks previously tasked with things like spying on Angela Merkel would get re-tasked real quick.

 

[jamil]

Politics101:

A problem solved is a campaign issue lost.

Not just that but they don’t really want the thing anyway. I don’t think for a minute that McCarthy wants to get rid of the education dept. He can play political theater because it’s not going anywhere.

 

[drillsgt]

Well...40+ years is pretty gradual.

Nobody has decided to shut it down in 40 years yet.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Not just that but they don’t really want the thing anyway. I don’t think for a minute that McCarthy wants to get rid of the education dept. He can play political theater because it’s not going anywhere.

Exactly. A perpetual campaign issue.

 

[HoughMade]

Similar "debate" about the Dept. of Energy.

 

[cobber]

Well, bye Dept of Defense

Formed in 1949. How did we manage before that?

Had a War Department and Navy Department.

But whatever.

 

[cg21]

Just because department of _______ is gone doesn’t mean someone can’t pick up the slack for all those citing the dept of defense. And I think a state militia could definitely arm itself…… I mean we have national guard already take away all the truckloads of cash we are paying the fed and we would have more than enough money to support individual armies…. There are certainly alternatives no one wants to explore options because then the piggy bank is GONE

 

[Leadeye]

DC delenda est!

 

[Vodnik4]

Who is they?

You know, they

 

[KLB]

Formed in 1949. How did we manage before that?

Had a War Department and Navy Department.

But whatever.

They formed it because those two didn't work well together.

Again, I say flush it and rebuild it. Build back better!

 

[Ingomike]

 

[BugI02]

Politics[abortion]101:

A problem solved is a campaign issue lost.

Fixy

 

[Magyars]

 

[BugI02]

Can we make BATFE part of the Department of Education, before we end that?

Two birds with one stone and all