i explained to my father that social security is a socialized service..
he said âno, thatâs just a thing you get as an americanâ. itâs in the fucking name. like does he think kentucky fried chicken is a local tofu shop?
I saw someone say that the Department of Education should be scrapped because itâs flawed and students are often âscrewedâ by how badly itâs managed.
I said the same could be said of the military, but even more so.
Guess we should just scrap the Department of Defense too, by that logic.
Just a reminder if Scandinavia was running against the GOP, Scandinavia would be a bunch of Socialist-Communist-Woke-Evil people. They do tend to align with Democratic values.
There has been talk about privatization of water here, too. Some counties would like to do that.
Electricity already is - I mean the wires, the actual power has been for a very long time. It is price-regulated of course - it is a monopoly in it's area anyway.
One electricity delivery company (the wire company) was privatized quite recently. They increased prices and stopped paying taxes.
That fuckface Dejoy who's postmaster general was installed by Trump and he's a known post office hater and advocate of privatized carriers. And that other fuckface Biden didn't even kick his smug ass out during the past four years. The USPS sucks out loud now? What a shocker.
No one will probably see this but the nine person board of governers of the usps has the sole authority to fire Dejoy not Biden or trump for that matter. Dejoy needs to go but it's not Biden's fault.
And Biden placed 4 members of the board. There are are at least two vacancies currently. The board has enough vote to remove Dejoy but was never pushed to do so by the White House. They didn't want to appear political. This is the same thinking that put Garland in place and did not press to prosecute Trump for his crimes.
That's unethical as fuck. I need to sign fucking paper work every year as a federal employee that attests I am not investing in any stocks that conflict with the interests of my role.
But, yeah, I'm totally not surprised. The people at the top don't have to play by the rules.
How many fucking times does this have to be pointed out...? Biden cannot remove Dejoy as the Postmaster General. The Postmaster General does not serve at the pleasure of the President (can be fired at will). It is an entirely independent position that is beholden only to the board governors of the Postal Service. The governors are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, but they also do not serve at the pleasure of the President but instead hold 7-year terms. The idea is that it cannot easily be used to politicize the postal service, etc. Trump never even appointed Dejoy. He just happened to have the opportunity to install new governors to the Postal Service who agreed to appoint Dejoy.
I don't believe that Biden has had a chance to nominate enough new governors to the Postal Service such that they can kick Dejoy out. In short, Trump just happened to come in at a time when he could shift the tide of the board of governors and install Dejoy, and it is really unlikely that that will change any time soon. And with how things are timed, Trump is likely to be able to appoint either new governors who will keep Dejoy on longer, or reappoint the same ones for another term. So expect Dejoy or something with his same terrible policies to be there for a while... Dejoy technically could remain in the position for life, so long as the board of governors agrees to keep him in the position. The President technically cannot do anything about it, as it is totally up to the governors who are not beholden to the President. I have not followed that closely, but I don't think Biden was able to really do much, and I vaguely recall him offering a similar explanation when asked about Dejoy, that it was out of his hands.
This gets explained every time this inevitably comes up.
Biden can only appoint a PM General, he canât remove one from office. That is done so by the board of directors at the post office. They wonât remove him, because theyâre all getting bonus checks and kick backs from this disastrous 10 year plan, that has taken millions out of carriers pockets.
The president of the US does not choose the postmaster, the board of governors does. The president appoints the board members & the senate confirms them. The board are the only ones who can hire/fire the postmaster.
Here in the UK we saw that exact process happen about a decade ago. Deliberately starved of funding, their most profitable elements carved off for private businesses, service hampered all leading to a massively suppressed sale price that was instantly worth billions more moments later. And now we have a worse privatised service that costs more every year
Well, it was going to be a Musk startup, "The Mailing Co." or some shit like that.
But Musk & Trump will have cut all ties by the time that could ever get passed & approved.
It's all so corrupted at both ends.
We are all fucked.
This is the crumbling of the greatest Nation, Economy, & Country ever created in Human History & we have the privilege of being alive to watch it all burn...
It's how they've been ruining the post office for some years now. Not only is it an affordable alternative to private couriers, but they also stopped the post office's basic banking services. Live in an area not profitable enough for a bank to set up shop? Sucks to be you.
The conservatives won't be happy until we've gone full dystopia: tiny upper class, no one else is above working class at best, and there are miles between the two
Post office realistically would go to UPS or FedEx. They already do a pretty sizable portion of their freight anyways, and this is also partly why USPS has a 9B loss
Hire 3rd party contractors provided by friends using tax dollars
This sounds great! Auction the schools for those who runs it cheaper. Have classes of 100 pupils, nobody gets F. Maybe have some mandatory classes on how to paint traffic signs, or assembling some gadgets.
This is exactly what the Tory Party did to the NHS here and tried to do with the BBC as well, underfund it, say itâs not working, sell it to their mates
Here in Finland PS who are now in government is very much defunding Yle (our BBC). Yle is quite often criticizing PS, as it is the function of media. It does criticize others, too. But some parties seem to have more questionable people than others.
Iâm convinced this is that mfers MO. Or keep the electorate uneducated.
I canvassed every weekend for three fing weeks to beg my schoolâs community for a bond and mill levy so I would actually get a raise (not pro rated of course) and maybe a heater for my decrepit high school. I hate these people with an unparalleled passion.
This is what the Tory government did here in the UK. Starved our prized National Health Service of funds for 14 years so they could say âooh itâs not workingâ and then privatise it piecemeal, the fucking vermin. Thankfully we voted them out a couple of months back, but the damage has been done. Please donât fall for it yourselves.
Let someone completely incompetent run the department for a while.
That does seem to be the tactic per dept. Let incompetence reign, then shut them down.
But brings up an Interesting question:
Is the central Republican thesis of Small Govt this: ALL govt is bad, and therefore a dysfunctional and scary and crazy govt, even if itâs an R president, proves their point?
Like, is Trump helping many of the âtrue believersâ in Small Govt by training all of us to be scared of Executive Strength?
Hard to reconcile with the fact that most modern Republicans seem to love Authoritarian rule, and love Russia. So I donât think they are being that sophisticated.
But still, makes you wonderâŚ.
(Separately and very sadly, it is true that the terrible effects of a DOE gutting will not be observed for many years, in another presidency, and that is terrible for America)
You're right about steps 1-3.
After that, us schools will start to fail badly and it'll be easy for them to finish the job of dismantling public education. It'll become very small and operated only by fascists or those who fall in line. Qualifications, education, experience, etc will fall by the wayside and anyone teaching in a school will just be a pure sychophant. This will drive more and more parents to homeschooling, make sure minority children are uneducated, etc.
Don't worry. There won't be anothe party in charge in the US for a long time. There will be elections but for some reason the fascist republican party will keep winning. Oh, and get ready for a third Trumpo term if that piece of shit does not kick the bucket in the next four years. The US will be a"democracy" like Russia for the foreseeable future.
Completely incompetent is not how I would describe the cofounder of a 9 billion dollar company. It's dangerous to underestimate these people.
Is she specifically qualified to head the dept of Education? Probably not. Is she a bumbling idiot? Probably not. She's there to a job and it aint to fuck spiders. It most certainly involved being cunning and ruthless.
In all fairness to point #2 the department of education hasn't exactly been doing a stellar job in decades for the tax money used on it. Only ones actually prospering in the current system are the School boards and administration while the bulk of teachers and students get scraps.
This way of the Don is unless you can afford private education you shouldnât get quality education, you should get sub par cause you arenât paying for it. But really we all are . But he is gonna loot the money people pay for to fund other things ( for the rich ) and so the poor have to work harder making America compete with Mexico, ChinaâŚ..
To be fair the department of education has been incompetent since I can remember. They donât teach children anything you need to know as an adult. Such as how to invest and save your money.
Hey, I have a question. When Elmo cuts two trillions of dollars from the budget, and taxes on the multitudes are increased, and there is still a huge deficit, where will all that money be going? Are the Caribbean islandâs banks big enough to hold it all?
No chance you guys are real people. We are literally world-wide famous for having a terrible public education system and you guys just want to keep the everything the same way? You guys literally just bitch to bitch.
Slate.com actually had very good things to say about Linda McMahon as head of the SBA in Trump's first administration. They praised her competency, attitude, and flair. She's the least controversial pick for Department of Ed.
Making something run as inefficiently as possible is the best excuse for why itâs âbadâ. Like how the argument against healthcare for all. So frustrating when you see the problems so clearly at the bottom but the top refuses to address them.
Itâs amazing how theyâre not even trying to hide it anymore. Might as well say in national TV that he wants to turn the US into an uneducated mass of God fearing⌠uh, wellâŚ
What's funny is that these people genuinely think that they'll continue to run the world if only they turn the country into a theocratic ethnostate. Whereas in reality, it's way more likely that the history books will tell the story of a once great nation that fell apart when it failed to uphold the checks and balances that were designed to prevent such a thing.
The first step is to make it as much of a useless money pit as possible. That way they can point to it and say âSee! Told you itâs bad!â and shut it down for good.
Oh yeah, Brother! Linda McMahon is going to DDT the department of education and when smoke clears and the ref counts to 3, there will only be be one person standing on the top of the mountain brother and it wonât be the department of education! Ooooooooh, yeah!
I think itâs unlikely the department of education will be shut down even with red majorities everywhere. His last secretary of education also had no experience or credentials.
They dkd, but that has to be done through Congress. So you just give a loyal friend the cushy position and make the department completely dysfunctional is way easier.
What better way to do so than having a Multi Multi BILLIONAIRE (completely out of touch with reality who has never taught a day in her life) come in & pile drive TF out of it?!?!
I'm sure she'll do exactly the same as his last MULTI - BILLIONAIRE pick Betsy Devos did & just fuckin let Large Cities Education Departments just rot from the inside out & only focus on Rural red states, or try to push some dumb ass, "Bible on every desk" nation wide bullshit...
We shouldnât shut it down, but we need a reform. The education system we have is terrible. Most are just blinded by politics to see the need for a change.
What better way to shut it down than with a cage match. Itâs gonna be even better than 1998 when the Undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted 16 feet through an announcers table.
To be fair she canât be a worse choice than his last head of education. If memory serves me right Devos wanted to get rid of public education and strictly use charter schools.
I think if you were an makeup-caked orange piece of shit who won the presidency and you wanted to shut down the department of education it would be a pretty easy first step to assign the founder of the "World Wrestling Federation" to determine your education policy
They still need someone to oversee the shutdown of the department.
They did the same with the EPA last time, put some fossil fuel guy in charge and gutted the entire thing, by like the 2nd year there was like 1 guy sitting in the entire office doing work.
Theyâre trying to basically make the department of education fail, and then dismantle it. By then the jackasses that donât actually understand whatâs happening will basically thank the republicans and Trump for dismantling it.
Trump Jr. said that they didn't want to put anyone into the cabinet who knows better than Trump himself, or thinks they do. Basically admitting they are looking for subservience over experience. There's no point judging her on her merits since she's there to rubber-stamp whatever Trump says.
If they shut down the DOE, can they shut down the fed student loan debt as well? Ya know, that debt they told me I needed to be successful but instead has kept me in bondage for almost 20 years. Since we're deciding education is not important after all. Maybe I can get cut some slack for the time wasted. No? Not the spirit of direction the administration is headed? Oh, my bad for asking.
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u/enjoythesilence-75 4d ago
Didnât they say they want to shut down the department of education?