Saw this on Twitter and agree completely. And the DOE is only one department that we could do without:
After all, they are just recycling our tax dollars back to the states, but in a way that pleases them rather than us. Cut out the middle man! Here is the DOE organizational chart:
What do you suggest?
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Give every employee a test and fire them if they don’t pass it.
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That’s a good idea, except they would just replace the fired employees with new ones.
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Yeah, well, the idea would be to not replace them.
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Bloomberg Simulations Show US National Debt on ‘Unsustainable Path’
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/04/03/one-million-simulations-the-us-debt-is-unsustainable-n2172257
A quick look at our national debt, handily tracked and presented by the U.S. National Debt Clock, tells us one undeniable fact–one that the Bloomberg organization has confirmed: We are hosed.
The United States is almost certainly on an unsustainable path with regard to the astronomic rise in its national debt, according to a million simulations run by Bloomberg.
Bloomberg reported Tuesday that it conducted a million simulations on the U.S. debt outlook and found 88% of them show borrowing is on an “unsustainable path.”
The findings come after a forecast by the Congressional Budget Office that indicates the national debt will grow to an astonishing $54 trillion in the next decade, the result of an aging population and rising federal health care costs. Higher interest rates are also compounding the pain of higher debt.
Payments are expected to triple from nearly $475 billion in fiscal year 2022 to a stunning $1.4 trillion in 2032. By 2053, the interest payments are projected to surge to $5.4 trillion. To put that into perspective, that will be more than the U.S. spends on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and all other mandatory and discretionary spending programs.
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Giving it to the schools will only feed a different beast. Instead, have the funding follow the child and let the parents decide who gets to education them – including themselves, if they choose to homeschool. It’s easy enough to set up a system where parents submit receipts or make purchase orders to use the funding; we were on a system like that during our final years of homeschooling. Half the funding went to the board we were registered with, half went to the parents. Best of all, parents could choose to not use all their funding, and the leftover amount could be carried over to the next year, allowing parents to “save up” for a major educational purchase. Parents could even donate their unused portion so the school board could put it towards parents who registered late and didn’t get full funding.
You wouldn’t believe how much certain branches of the provincial government tried to put and end to carrying over funding. Without that, the money would have gone back into the government pot, for them to use for their own purposes, instead.
Government needs to get out of education.
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Good idea, but it should be done on the state or provincial level, not the federal level.
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At least in the U.S., the state level is where the funding decisions should be made.
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If we set gubmint outlays at the 2019 levels (full year before covid), we would be able to pay the debt down by $400B.
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-11/55824-CBO-MBR-FY19.pdf
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Stop producing omnibus budget bills which have thousands of objectionable items included and are distributed without time for anyone to read them. Pelosi especially loved these. Stop funding the Palestine refugee program through the UN, which is inefficient @nd seems to go to the few leaders and not the poor people who need. It Stop funding Zelensky who just bought ANOTHER mansion with (presumably) my tax money. No more money to “climate change”.
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And stop subsidizing growing corn for gasoline additive . It takes fossil fuel to make the fertilizer, it does not reduce carbon footprint, and the world would be better served by growing food. And it wastes my tax money paying farmers the subsidy.
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