White House to Propose Merging Education, Labor Departments
Source: Wall Street Journal
The White House plans to propose merging the Departments of labor and education as part of a broader reorganization of the federal government, said a person with knowledge of the proposal.
An announcement is planned for Thursday morning, after a months long review of cabinet agencies with an eye toward shrinking the federal government.
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-to-propose-merging-education-labor-departments-1529533148
pangaia
(24,324 posts)So, they can kill two birds, er departments, with one stone. er executive order...
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Truck Fump.
a kennedy
(29,706 posts)JUST COME RIGHT OUT AND SCREAM IT....FUCK TRUMP.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)During a late-2011 Republican-primary debate on CNBC, Perry said he would eliminate three cabinet-level departments should he be elected.
He named the Department of Commerce and the Department of Education but could not recall the third.
"It's three agencies of the government that when I get there that are gone," Perry said. "Commerce, Education, and the uh, um, what's the third one there, let's see."
Every GOP idea ever hatched and shelved since Nixon is being dusted off and enacted.
Grover Norquist must be so pleased,
This is a HOSTILE TAKEOVER?
neohippie
(1,142 posts)He wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy because he had no idea of what it did. And then Trump appointed him to be the head of it. You can't make this stuff up.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/12/13/13936210/rick-perry-energy-department-trump
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Eliminating dept of ed has been a GOP dream for years
neohippie
(1,142 posts)I am aware that there are plans to deconstruct as much government as possible, they've come in with their wrecking ball and aren't stopping now
James48
(4,440 posts)These guys must really be afraid of educated Union members.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Or rather the present leadership... sine there is no real leadership the role of POTUS seems to be redundant.
Yup. Fire Trump. That'll save millions.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Maybe Transportation and the Treasury, or Commerce and Defense
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)I see it now.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)The anger just builds.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Let that anger turn.
We are all in this together. It's a proposal. We don't know what tomorrow will bring. I can tell you this, piss off the teachers and labor unions...Watch the shitake hit the fan, BIG TIME bc these people TAUGHT the world to protest American style. Even cops have labor unions. If it's all going to blow....better sooner than later imo.
nature-lover
(1,470 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Coventina
(27,172 posts)catbyte
(34,447 posts)sweatshops to be set up once they overturn child labor laws?
Toorich
(391 posts)to incorporate the Bureau of Prisons into the equation.
Put the kids in the "private" prisons, that way they'll be safe.
They can be trained to do prison labor by the inmates.
That way we will no longer have to pay the greedy public school teachers.
It's a win-win-win for DeVose.
Midwestern Democrat
(806 posts)the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) - which is where those functions used to be until 1979? The Department of Labor has been around since 1913. Note: I don't want them to do this, but if they want to merge Education, this would make more sense than merging it with Labor.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Leave the govt alone. If it needs to be changed, why didn't Obama say so? We aren't merging shit. We have a govt for all of us, not dt and his merry band of men. for what? More tax cuts?? Wheres the jobs from the LAST tax cutS??? No more giving in to this shit.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)Total incompetence at every turn
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)multi-level marketing scheme, à la Amway.
Seriously, I'm not seeing it. DOL has a strong regulatory history.
No wonder they want to get rid of it.
Takket
(21,625 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)Just get rid of education altogether. Send those taker kids to work.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)For lending a hand with our big beautiful blue wave. His desperation is forcing his minions to tragically miscalculate public opinion...
procon
(15,805 posts)The Oligarchs are slavering, the Fascists are arming up, and the Republicans are sharing a cigarette.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)WTF? I honestly can't believe this.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)deconstruction of admin state, eliminate D of Labor, D of Education, EPA, HHS eventually, reallocate resources to DHS/ICE. Dramatic expansion of prisons is expected soon after sessions starts to enforce DEA on marijuana. They will be trying to take over corporate boards of media companies to control the message. Meanwhile alt right groups across the county are getting more embolden every day.
janx
(24,128 posts)but this is both ridiculous and predictable.
Nasruddin
(754 posts)A collaboration between Charles Dickens and Jonathan Swift.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Emphasis on turning out worker bees who are obedient to authority and have no thoughts of their own. They'll learn how bad unions are and how the company has their best interests at heart. They'll learn their only value is in working hard and never complaining. Never expecting more. Never having choices.
Education is so much more than learning a trade or having a profession.
It makes us better people. It teaches us to think and to look beyond what we think we know to a world of infinite possibilities. It tells us to dare to dream and then gives us the tools to make those dreams come true.
Education should never be used as some blueprint for conditioning young minds to be mindless workers for the state.
Education should free your mind. Education doesn't seek to narrow the possibilities, but rather opens them up.
It teaches us we have choices and provides the necessary information to make the best choice possible.
Education helps us to grow.
Solly Mack, former Educator and someone who still believes in the power of knowledge.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Between Trump and DeVos there is no telling the full horror they have planned for education, but I know it will be bad.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Perhaps the opposite of what Repugs want. None of this open-minded shit for the masses......
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Definitely the opposite from what Republicans want.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)there's surely a way to sprinkle some religion in there, too.
Department of God's Smart Obedient Little Laborers..........
Nitram
(22,877 posts)The goal is to entirely revoke The New Deal.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... and the citizens.
-- Mal
onenote
(42,759 posts)It went nowhere then; it will go nowhere now.