Trump education secretary says 'Department of Education should not exist'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

Former Secretary of Education Betsy Devos believes that the department she once led should be abolished.

Devos, who spent four years as the education secretary during the Trump administration, made the remarks at the inaugural “Moms For Liberty” summit on Saturday, according to the Florida Phoenix.

“I personally think the Department of Education should not exist,” Devos told the mostly conservative crowd in Tampa, Fla.

Devos was a leading proponent of “education freedom” during her time in office, promoting vouchers to allow families to choose their children’s school.

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That's today's GOP. Where else can you get paid to bad mouth your employer and destroy the company?

[PJMcK]

1. Well, Republicans have always been opposed to public education

They always want to cut school budgets.

They always want to limit the curricula.

They always want the kids to go hungry.

They always want to inject BS into the textbooks.

Republicans suck.

[Walleye]

13. But they want more unwanted babies to be born

[LudwigPastorius]

15. Keep 'em stupid, so they'll keep voting Republican!

[paleotn]

2. In a just world, Betsy should not exist.

[SouthBayDem]

3. Eliminating the DOE was a goal of Reagan

UPI report from January 29, 1985:

President Reagan, citing little congressional support, will not recommend closing down the Education Department, a major goal when he took office in 1981, it was revealed today.

“I have no intention of recommending the abolition of the department to the Congress at this time,” Reagan said in a letter to Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.

Reagan said: “As you know, I have previously recommended the abolition of the Department of Education.

“This was because I believed that federal educational programs could be administered effectively without a Cabinet-level agency. While I still feel that this is the best approach, that proposal has received very little support in the Congress.”

(Of course, the House had a Democratic majority - albeit a more conservative one than today's - throughout the '80s. The Senate had a Republican majority from 1981-87 after flipping from 25+ years of D majority in '80.)

The first US Department of Education was founded in 1867 under President Andrew Johnson but was downgraded to a mere Office of Education within the Interior Department a year later. But education returned to the presidential cabinet in Eisenhower's first year, with the founding of the Deparment of Health, Education, and Welfare. In 1980 under Carter, the "Health" and "Education" parts were split in their own departments.

[AZLD4Candidate]

10. "A Nation at Risk" also helped propel this crap. Thanks, Bill Bennett!

[Rhiannon12866]

23. Thanks for the history! President Carter tried to streamline government agencies

He also created the Department of Energy when this country was facing yet another energy crisis - the department whose name Rick Perry couldn't remember and the one TFG assigned him to lead.

[EndlessWire]

34. LOL! n/t

[LT Barclay]

29. I picked up Ambrose's biography of Eisenhower and I'm looking forward to it for a few reasons, but

the biggest is trying to figure out how such a great man was willing to tack an "R" behind his name.

But it is interesting that he is the one republican president you'll never hear a current conservative invoke.

[SouthBayDem]

33. To be fair, today's conservatives are not fond of many R presidents

Richard Nixon isn't looked back fondly, both due to Watergate...and being insufficiently conservative (creating the EPA and instituting price control).

Gerald Ford was also not conservative enough; there's a reason Reagan was a legitimate primary challenger all the way to the '76 convention.

Both Bushes are now named mud on today's right: Bush the Elder due to violating his "no new taxes" pledge and Bush the Younger for many reasons: The Iraq war, expanding the surveillance state, the bank bailouts, and not being the "no amnesty, close the borders" type that TFG was.

[bronxiteforever]

4. Devos is just another billionaire who can go fuck themselves.n.t.

[MarcA]

5. She means the Oligarchs should get the education money

to make more money, lessen education and put the little people in their place.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Of course Betsy, conservatives have no use for education

So why have a Department of Education? It’s incredibly telling that every time a freedom hating lunatic shares a thought it’s always prefaced by “I personally think” or “I believe” or “in my opinion” or “ some people say”. Fitting because they sure as hell don’t KNOW. I had an awesome High School Debate Teacher and I remember one of her lessons when I was a sophomore in 1970. “If You Assert you must PROVE.” Oh how quaint conservatives have made that notion. To paraquote a movie line and assigning it to conservatives. Facts? We don’t need no stinking facts. And another movie line dedicated to MAGAs everywhere - You can’t handle the truth.

[Farmer-Rick]

47. What a great teacher

It took me until my 60s to figure that one out.

“If You Assert you must PROVE.”

[LiberalFighter]

7. She needs to move to Eastern Ukraine now and permanently.

[LiberalFighter]

8. I would love the Amway company to be destroyed.

[PortTack]

9. She's just like the orange mass. She had this big plan to "fix" education. It failed MISERABLY

So..if I can’t have it, no one will.

[BlueIdaho]

11. To be fair, she has always believed that.

One of the things that made her total shit at her position in TFG’s stinkfest administration.

[3auld6phart]

12. Shadup

Shut the feck up, Ten yacht Betsy . You gawd damn repukes are
tearing the USA up. What the feck,Amway bitch go pound sand.
You and your kind are lower than slug slime.Now I will go and
see what others have to say about you.

[Walleye]

14. Why can't these people just enjoy their lives of wealth without fucking the rest of us over

[turbinetree]

16. I wonder if she knows that she and others of her ilk are nothing more kleptocrats

[Rebl2]

18. Of course

she does and she could care less.

[turbinetree]

19. That's one of the reasons why were in this crap.....

[Freethinker65]

17. Keep the underclass uneducated, lacking in critical thinking skills, and obedient

That has always been the goal of the monied self-serving "conservative". Keep the underclass uneducated, lacking in critical thinking skills, and obedient so they are easier to exploit. Ensuring the breeding of more underclass is a plus.

[turbinetree]

21. I am reading a book right now called

On Corruption in America
And What is At Stake
By Sarah Chayes

and Miss Chayes gets into the details of kleptocrats are basically just getting away with things like this....

[aggiesal]

20. Pendejo45's administration placed people in charge of departments ...

that wanted to dismantle them.
To (R)'s every part of government should be profitized.

Someone always has to make money.

They don't believe that government is a service.p

[Martin68]

22. Who give a shit what Betsy Devos says? this is not news. That's the state she had during her entire

office.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

24. Betsy deVos is too fucking stupid to have a opinion on anything.

[Marcuse]

25. "That's just how we roll!"

[sakabatou]

26. I'm not surprised.

[Turbineguy]

27. You give them education and the next thing you know

they vote for smart people!

The republicans don't need that.

[Botany]

28. From Wiki: Moms For Liberty

Moms for Liberty is an American conservative 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that says it advocates for parental rights in schools.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The organization has campaigned against COVID-19 restrictions in schools, including mask and vaccine mandates, and against school curriculums that mention LGBT rights, race, critical race theory, and discrimination,[1][4][6][9] and multiple chapters have also campaigned to ban from school libraries books that address gender and sexuality issues. Moms for Liberty has been likened to the Tea Party movement and the Moral Majority organization.[1][8][10]

Moms for Liberty has been criticized for harassment from its members, deepening divisions among parents, making it more challenging for school officials to educate students, and having close ties to the Republican Party rather than being a genuine grassroots effort.

[LiberalLovinLug]

30. "I love the uneducated!"

[truthisfreedom]

31. Pipe dream, Devos. Law says schools can't discriminate

If they receive federal funds. Your voucher plan is a con job.

[Ford_Prefect]

32. Can't wait to see her face when the arrest warrant is served.

Grift and Graft throughout her office mostly by her and immediate staff.

[EndlessWire]

35. This stuff shouldn't surprise me anymore

but, it still does. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?? Honestly, what in hell is wrong with them? Are they playing some kind of game where they are competing to see who can say the most outlandish thing they can possibly think of? Who can destroy the most of the office they pledged to serve?

They make me so tired...

[Slammer]

36. I agree completely

The US Department of Education shouldn't exist.

There would be no need for it if the individual states were doing their jobs properly.

The Department of Defense shouldn't exist either because nations should be able to figure out a way of settling their differences without killing each other, whether they're led by a Putin or a Mother Teresa.

Stop signs shouldn't exist because people ought to be able to figure out that its dangerous to drive through intersections without stopping and looking for oncoming traffic....

[Lonestarblue]

37. Betsy DeVos practically destroyed public education in Michigan.

The state’s students were near the top in performance metrics on federal tests and now rank in the bottom third. Her push for religious schools and for-profit charter schools robbed the public schools of money while delivering inferior education. I’m not sure Michigan schools will ever recover, but that is what Republicans try tondo to education in every state they control. There’s a reason students in states like W. Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas perform below the national average on the NAEP test.

[czarjak]

38. The Rich. The Dumb. Republicans.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

39. "Moms For Liberty"

Devos, who spent four years as the education secretary during the Trump administration, made the remarks at the inaugural “Moms For Liberty” summit on Saturday, according to the Florida Phoenix.

Sun Jul 17, 2022: Moms for Liberty's conservative activists are planning their next move: Taking over school boards

[IronLionZion]

40. GOP wants a permanent servant class

of desperate people who will do low income labor while uneducated Americans blame immigrants for stealing their jobs.

[Farmer-Rick]

41. Why do we listen to these morally corrupt psychopaths?

They happen to luck onto some wealth and think their crap doesn't stink.

Yet with their access to endless luxuries and endless idleness they want to f*ck the little girls and boys. They want to get rid of democracy. They want to sleep with their family members, they want to be rid of an educated populace. They want to bribe and buy our government. They want to murder an steal with no legal accountability. They want mythology to serve as law. They want to dump their waste into the air to destroy our planet.

The American filthy rich oligarchy of today, (Waltons, Koch Bros, Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and Ellon Musk) are the worse in history. They are more corrupt then Boss Tweed.

[Initech]

43. Easy answer: $$$$$$$$$

[Farmer-Rick]

46. So true

And yet so sad.

[Initech]

42. Who needs to think when Fox News does all your thinking for you?

[brooklynite]

44. Republicans have been saying this since DOE was created...

...whenever they're in charge, they do nothing about it.

[malthaussen]

45. It pretty much didn't exist while you were in charge, Bitsy. n/t

[Kid Berwyn]

48. She fears what an educated population could do.

Demanding billionaires pay their fair share in taxes, for one thing.

Seeing how all people are equal under law, for another.

[area51]

49. +1 n/t

[dchill]

50. I personally think the Betsy Devos should not exist.