The ad comes as Obama’s new push for a discussion on education and announced new education proposals starting with a speech in Ohio today.
Obama Ad:
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McCain favored “Doing Away” with the Department of Education
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from HuffPo
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p>So at this point:
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p>Nothing from Goldfarb, McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds and RNC even though they have each responded to the ad.
Take a $20 bill send it to washington.
Pay Bureaucrats $5.00 of the $20.00
Transfer to State: Bureaucrats take $5.00
Transfer to local government: Buereaucrats take $5.00
Money spent on children $5.00
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p>Yes this is oversimplified. But it’s how it works. Education is a local service. It should be paid for from money collected as close to the expenditure as possible. The national department of education is an overreach of Constitutional responsibility in my humble opinion. It’s a philosophical thing I know.
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p>Let’s do this. Get rid of the department and block grant 75% of the current budget directly to municipalities based on population. Problem solved. 25% of the budget saved.
Do you eliminate Title One as well, both the law and the funding? How ’bout what little funding backs up No Child Left Behind.
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p>As long as we have a raft of onerous, confusing federal laws touching upon education, it makes sense to have a federal department to oversee funding, implementation, and clarification of those laws.
That “raft of onerous, confusing federal laws touching upon education” is why many conservatives favor eliminating the Dept. of Education, and transferring vestigial authority for civil rights and safety to HHS. Without a bureaucaic home, such laws will cease to be passed.
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p>Control for curriculum and funding will return to the staes, where it belongs.
created the Department of Homeland Security, which is perhaps the biggest, most ineffective bureaucratic mash-up of our times. But you’re right – let’s get rid of the Ed Dept. Maybe it can become another subsidiary of DHS!
…three if you count Energy.
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p>ASAP, Homeland Security responsibilites need to be given to the Pentagon. My recollection is that the Democrats opposed that at the time, and so the new department was created – but it needs to go now anyway.
I think you missed the point of my comment, which was of the “glass houses” nature. DHS was Bush’s baby.
Which was to say that like Education, the responsibilities of DHS should be given to an appropriate agency, like the Pentagon, and the agency ended ASAP.
you have nothing to back up your convenient recollections. weak.
Gives me a 4 for asking her to back up her “facts”. Did you forget that this is a fact-based forum?
That’s the reason to keep it?
The quote is from 1994. I assumed that he would have changed his tune at some point.
It sounds so fringe that I suspect he has long since distanced himself from that view.
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p>He voted for No Child Left Behind which would seem to indicate that he no longer wishes to abolish the Department of Education.
McCain hasn’t pushed for funding the program.
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p>But as of today, it’s being overshadowed by the lipstick on a pig foolishness. Ah, presidential politics. Just get outraged by something so zany that the media will have to talk about it. Just change the subject. Obama hammers McCain on Education, gives him something to squirm about and they try to change the subject.
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p>I still think this is a winner and something that Obama should continue to hammer away at this week. McCain’s team hasn’t done much except counter attack and pretty much wanting to stay away for McCain’s earlier statement about the Department of Education.
Many conservatives I’ve spoken with favor abolishing the Dept of Ed. They almost always live in communities with high home ownership rates, and lots of property tax funding their own local schools quite well.
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p>McCain’s in a tough place on this issue, and many more… it’s red meat to the party liners to abolish the Dept of Ed, but moderates generally think it’s a wingnut idea.