1. in what world do you think I as a taxpayer want to play the R game where your State has low taxes, and they take my money to keep them low, and give their kids sh9t educations?youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:18 pm The feds can still send a check...dont need an official DoE to cut checks.
2. you just said the quiet part out loud: Republican States as a whole suck, economically. And you want the rest of us to shut up and give you our money with no oversight. So each nutjob Republican governor can do things like fund Christian schools on my dime. Or stick it to poor students passing this money along to the rich ones. Hard pass.
3. You need infrastructure and fraud prevention even if you do it your way. And you need SOMEONE to make sure that they receivers follow Federal law, and doesn't waste the money. Who is going to do that? That's right: the Department of Ed.
1. says the guy who gets Federal contracts. Want smaller government? Don't line up to the Fed trough. Start with YOU, then lecture the rest of us.
2. This is Republican thinking 101: you think that "big government" means people. So what do politicians do? They make government even bigger, and then staff out the government work using taxpayer dollars, and claim "oh, look the number of Federal employees are smaller". What Vivek is proposing won't make ANYTHING smaller. All it will do is give government services a different name.
What he's proposing is like claiming he got rid of all the jobs in the Air Force by simply renaming them "the Marines".
Dude, I've had the exact. same. policy. since I set foot on the forum. Hasn't changed a lick.youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:18 pm ...strange that you blow us up not stop for it, now you want to keep it....make up your damned mind.
You want big government? Great. Pay for it.
You want small government? Great. Pay for it. That's it. That's all I ask.
What YOUR hypocritical party does, as you very well know, is BRAG about being "small government", right before you make the Federal Government 66% bigger in four years like your man Trump did. All on borrowed money.
All I've pointed out is: small government is IMPOSSIBLE in a 1st world 21st century economy. It cannot be done. Know how I know this? Because A. you can't name a single nation that has this mythical small government, and B. the supposed proponents who run on "small government" EXPLODE the size of the government every time you vote them into power. So....what does that tell you?
YOU think he wants to make government smaller. He wants to make it bigger, and give the people doing these tasks "different names". If that impresses you? Fine. Let it impress you. Elect him. I'll be on here to take the same wager I offer every time you guys get in charge. And you, knowing your party is full of sh(t, won't take the bet.youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:18 pm Just b/c he said he is cutting those orgs, does not mean he is cutting all their services. I heard him speak of merging the FBI and ATF under the US Marshall, who has overriding authority on those entities anyway. ....so a guy now wants to make gov't smaller, and you now fuss about that....again, make up your mind.
Want to make government smaller, YA? Balance the budget by raising taxes. If you do that? Congrats, the interest on the debt that you will save will be MORE than the DOEd budget. THAT would make government smaller. Where's the R candidate willing to do that? Sorry man, but your party and its voters are a bunch of spoiled rotten children who don't want to pay for what they get.
They all are. My point is: these are CLEARLY 1%er policies that shows he doesn't understand what government does.youthathletics wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:18 pm So tell us.....who is NOT a 1% that runs for POTUS in 2024 or eveh? And no, you can't say Bernie, he is also a 1%er.
If you or Vivek doesn't understand what the DoE does? Waddle his *ss down there and ask. He be STUNNED at all the things that they do. Good governance is like a good lax ref: you don't notice it.