White House to Propose Merging Education, Labor Departments

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: Wall Street Journal

The White House plans to propose merging the Departments of labor and education as part of a broader reorganization of the federal government, said a person with knowledge of the proposal.

An announcement is planned for Thursday morning, after a months long review of cabinet agencies with an eye toward shrinking the federal government.

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-to-propose-merging-education-labor-departments-1529533148

[pangaia]

1. WHAT ??

So, they can kill two birds, er departments, with one stone. er executive order...

[lagomorph777]

5. Exactly. Keep the chaos rolling; Putin is applauding.

Truck Fump.

[a kennedy]

10. NO, NOT TRUCK FUMP.......

JUST COME RIGHT OUT AND SCREAM IT....FUCK TRUMP.

[OhNo-Really]

25. Remember Rick Perry debate? Eliminate Departments of?

During a late-2011 Republican-primary debate on CNBC, Perry said he would eliminate three cabinet-level departments should he be elected.

He named the Department of Commerce and the Department of Education but could not recall the third.

"It's three agencies of the government that when I get there that are gone," Perry said. "Commerce, Education, and the uh, um, what's the third one there, let's see."

Every GOP idea ever hatched and shelved since Nixon is being dusted off and enacted.

Grover Norquist must be so pleased,

This is a HOSTILE TAKEOVER?

[neohippie]

39. It was the Department of Energy

He wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy because he had no idea of what it did. And then Trump appointed him to be the head of it. You can't make this stuff up.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/12/13/13936210/rick-perry-energy-department-trump

[OhNo-Really]

42. He wanted to eleminat 3 Departments, EDUCATION was one of the 3

Eliminating dept of ed has been a GOP dream for years

[neohippie]

43. Yes I was just filling in your blank

I am aware that there are plans to deconstruct as much government as possible, they've come in with their wrecking ball and aren't stopping now

[James48]

2. All the better to kill Teacher Unions!

These guys must really be afraid of educated Union members.

[appalachiablue]

33. +1 Part of the plan.

[mwooldri]

3. I wish the White House would vote to eliminate itself.

Or rather the present leadership... sine there is no real leadership the role of POTUS seems to be redundant.

Yup. Fire Trump. That'll save millions.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. the effort to drown it in a bathtub continues unabated.

[dalton99a]

6. Idiots. Wrong merger. They should merge Agriculture and Veterans Affairs

Maybe Transportation and the Treasury, or Commerce and Defense

[BigmanPigman]

7. children + work equals child labor

I see it now.

[pazzyanne]

14. First thing that crossed my mind. Nothing surprises me any more.

The anger just builds.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

27. Let it turn.

Let that anger turn.
We are all in this together. It's a proposal. We don't know what tomorrow will bring. I can tell you this, piss off the teachers and labor unions...Watch the shitake hit the fan, BIG TIME bc these people TAUGHT the world to protest American style. Even cops have labor unions. If it's all going to blow....better sooner than later imo.

[nature-lover]

8. Who will lead this new Department of Laborious Education?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Mindset that view education only as training. Not for a questioning electorate. Do as you are told.

[Coventina]

21. My first thought as well. n/t

[catbyte]

11. WTF?!? What's his scam, a pipeline directly from Kindergarten to Princess Royal's

sweatshops to be set up once they overturn child labor laws?

[Toorich]

12. They forgot .....

to incorporate the Bureau of Prisons into the equation.
Put the kids in the "private" prisons, that way they'll be safe.
They can be trained to do prison labor by the inmates.
That way we will no longer have to pay the greedy public school teachers.
It's a win-win-win for DeVose.

[Midwestern Democrat]

13. Why wouldn't they just merge Education and Health and Human Services and simply call it

the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) - which is where those functions used to be until 1979? The Department of Labor has been around since 1913. Note: I don't want them to do this, but if they want to merge Education, this would make more sense than merging it with Labor.

[pazzyanne]

15. Because that makes more sense?

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

29. Merge smerge

Leave the govt alone. If it needs to be changed, why didn't Obama say so? We aren't merging shit. We have a govt for all of us, not dt and his merry band of men. for what? More tax cuts?? Wheres the jobs from the LAST tax cutS??? No more giving in to this shit.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Don't trust these clowns to merge a mail list let alone any part of our government

Total incompetence at every turn

[tarheelsunc]

17. Makes perfect sense. The Department of Child Labor. Eom

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. Good idea. I've long thought the Bureau of Labor Statistics would make an excellent

multi-level marketing scheme, à la Amway.

Seriously, I'm not seeing it. DOL has a strong regulatory history.

No wonder they want to get rid of it.

[Takket]

19. but they do completely different things.... that makes no sense

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

30. Bc nobody is stopping them.

[Freethinker65]

20. No critical thinking skills needed for the masses working for the rich

Just get rid of education altogether. Send those taker kids to work.

[BlueIdaho]

22. Thank You Donny

For lending a hand with our big beautiful blue wave. His desperation is forcing his minions to tragically miscalculate public opinion...

[procon]

23. First step to eliminate the Labor Department, next the Education goes.

The Oligarchs are slavering, the Fascists are arming up, and the Republicans are sharing a cigarette.

[smirkymonkey]

24. Is this some kind of joke?

WTF? I honestly can't believe this.

[AlexSFCA]

26. I expected nothing less

deconstruction of admin state, eliminate D of Labor, D of Education, EPA, HHS eventually, reallocate resources to DHS/ICE. Dramatic expansion of prisons is expected soon after sessions starts to enforce DEA on marijuana. They will be trying to take over corporate boards of media companies to control the message. Meanwhile alt right groups across the county are getting more embolden every day.

[janx]

28. I've never been a fan of how the federal ed dept operates,

but this is both ridiculous and predictable.

[Nasruddin]

31. Sounds like

A collaboration between Charles Dickens and Jonathan Swift.

[Solly Mack]

32. Education as labor force training.

Emphasis on turning out worker bees who are obedient to authority and have no thoughts of their own. They'll learn how bad unions are and how the company has their best interests at heart. They'll learn their only value is in working hard and never complaining. Never expecting more. Never having choices.



Education is so much more than learning a trade or having a profession.

It makes us better people. It teaches us to think and to look beyond what we think we know to a world of infinite possibilities. It tells us to dare to dream and then gives us the tools to make those dreams come true.

Education should never be used as some blueprint for conditioning young minds to be mindless workers for the state.

Education should free your mind. Education doesn't seek to narrow the possibilities, but rather opens them up.

It teaches us we have choices and provides the necessary information to make the best choice possible.

Education helps us to grow.

Solly Mack, former Educator and someone who still believes in the power of knowledge.

[appalachiablue]

34. Well said, the true purpose of education.

[Solly Mack]

37. Thank you, appalachiablue

Between Trump and DeVos there is no telling the full horror they have planned for education, but I know it will be bad.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

36. K&R - Solly, that was what formed me into a liberal thinker!

Perhaps the opposite of what Repugs want. None of this open-minded shit for the masses......

[Solly Mack]

38. Me, too. It's how I was taught.

Definitely the opposite from what Republicans want.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

35. Something missing in this merger....

there's surely a way to sprinkle some religion in there, too.

Department of God's Smart Obedient Little Laborers..........

[Nitram]

40. Right. Merge them and defund them both, killing two birds with one Republican stone.

The goal is to entirely revoke The New Deal.

[malthaussen]

41. And that says much about how they see government...

... and the citizens.

-- Mal

[onenote]

44. Recycling Old Idea. Repubs first proposed it in 1995

It went nowhere then; it will go nowhere now.