Healthcare and education are being done better for less expenditure elsewhere.
Healthcare is an arena for the redistribution of wealth.
The US Dept of Education is a very misleading name. But calling it the Dept of Mind Control would not be PC.
The Dept of Education's mission is to create citizens that acquiesce to authority. Stand in single file. Do not talk unless you raise your hand and are granted permission.
Look at how well it now works. Notice all the apathetic fucks that don't give a shit that their privacy is gone and fail to understand liberty cannot exist without privacy. Those who would trade liberty (i. e.privacy) for security deserve neither liberty nor security.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” -Ben Franklin
Big changes may be coming to student loans, and colleges in general, with the Higher Education Act (HR 450
now in the House. The bill is a long way from becoming law, but right now it includes fewer loan programs, lower limits and an end to forgiveness programs such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Plus, there is support for quicker, cheaper, career programs focused on job training.
And back to civil rights, there is yet another piece of Obama-era guidance that may see a rollback. This one is a 2014 letter from the Departments of Justice and Education about school discipline and race. The Departments instructed schools that they will investigate complaints of discrimination related to discipline policies. Years of research has found that black and Hispanic students are disciplined more harshly than white students, suspended and expelled at higher rates, beginning in preschool. However, the Education Department has said it will delay enforcement of a rule related to this guidance. And, in recent weeks, officials met with critics who say that schools are less safe as a result of the changes in school discipline.
The two greatest myths
- The US is the greatest country in the world
- The US Stands for Freedom and Liberty. Of which neither exist.
It's not the greatest country in the world.
You know why people don't like liberals?
Because they lose. If liberals are so fuckin' smart, how come they lose so goddamn always?
And with a straight face you're gonna tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom?
Canada has freedom.
Japan has freedom.
The U.K., France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia. Belgium has freedom!
207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.
There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world.
- We're seventh in literacy,
- 27th in math
- 22nd in science,
- 49th in life expectancy,
- 178th in infant mortality,
- third in median household income
- number four in labor force
- number four in exports
We lead the world in only three categories:
- Number of incarcerated citizens per capita,
- Number of adults who believe angels are real,
- Defense spending where we spend more than the next countries combined, of whom 25 are allies.
Now, none of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Yosemite?
We sure used to be.
We stood up for what was right.
We fought for moral reasons.
We passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons.
We waged wars on poverty, not poor people.
We sacrificed.
We cared about our neighbors.
We put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chest.
We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy.
We reached for the stars, acted like men.
We aspired to intelligence. We didn't belittle it. It didn't make us feel inferior.
We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn't... we didn't scare so easy.
Huh.
Ahem, we were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed, by great men, men who were revered.
The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one.
America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
- Will McAvoy, The Newsroom Season 1 Episode 1