Re: "The View" Host Floats Bizarre Theory Why Trump Would Ax Education Dept

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:05:34 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:30:42 -0500, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:
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“The View” host Sunny Hostin claimed on Thursday that President Donald Trump
wanted to gut the Department of Education because his end goal was to foster
the growth of a “permanent underclass” of uneducated laborers.
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Hostin made the comments during Thursday’s broadcast of the ABC News midday
talk show — even as Linda McMahon, Trump’s choice to serve as Secretary of
Education, sat on Capitol Hill taking questions about how she planned to lead
the department if confirmed.
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Responding to Trump’s assertions that he would prefer to ultimately dismantle
the federal Department of Education — turning the power over to the states —
Hostin argued that he’d gotten the idea from Project 2025 despite his
repeated insistence that he’d never even read it.
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“You know, getting rid of the Department of Education is actually the first
goal listed in the education section of Project 2025 … We warned everybody,”
she said. “She also argued that the Department of Education wouldn’t actually
save very much money because it was small compared to other government
agencies.

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I'm probably going to be hammered for asking but what's the problem
with Washington getting out of areas of state jurisdiction and vice
versa?

The question I would ask is what is an area of state jurisdiction.
It's not unreasonable to argue that the US government, along with the
state and local governments have a vested interest in an educated
population. Especially given our modern civilization where technology
is becoming more prevalent.

In Canada federal $$$ go into all sorts of areas of provincial
jurisdiction (far more than I personally think suggests sane fiscal
management) but at least they keep their hands away from the controls
once the checks are cut. The catch of course is that there being 10
provinces vs 50 states, Canadian provinces tend to have more influence
than American states in Ottawa / Washington.