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demmiblue

(36,903 posts)
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 04:03 PM Mar 2019

Betsy DeVos: Deep cuts to Special Olympics, student programs are warranted

Source: The Detroit Free Press

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday defended deep cuts to programs meant to help students and others, including eliminating $18 million to support Special Olympics, while urging Congress to spend millions more on charter schools.

"We are not doing our children any favors when we borrow from their future in order to invest in systems and policies that are not yielding better results," DeVos said in prepared testimony before a House subcommittee considering the Department of Education's budget request for the next fiscal year.

It was the first time that DeVos, a wealthy former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman and school choice advocate, had been called before a Democratic-led panel in the U.S. House to explain President Donald Trump's spending priorities.

While proposing to add $60 million more to charter school funding and create a tax credit for individual and companies that donate to scholarships for private schools, DeVos's budget proposal would still cut more than $7 billion from the Education Department, about 10 percent of its current budget.

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/03/26/betsy-devos-special-olympics/3278388002/



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Betsy DeVos: Deep cuts to Special Olympics, student programs are warranted (Original Post) demmiblue Mar 2019 OP
Hey Cruella DeVos: I hope the staff in your future nursing home are educated under your policies. lagomorph777 Mar 2019 #1
People like her and her family never have to worry about a nursing home. llmart Mar 2019 #10
But it is OK to borrow from the future to give the wealthiest a tax cut democratisphere Mar 2019 #2
+1 n/t area51 Mar 2019 #14
I can't recognize my country any more... PeeJ52 Mar 2019 #3
every fucking day. barbtries Mar 2019 #4
But Ohiogal Mar 2019 #5
Devos is a despicable, evil woman. gademocrat7 Mar 2019 #6
Devospicable Mendocino Mar 2019 #35
Total cruelty and heartlessness. Our country is better than this. nt Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #7
You know what? Maybe it's not. llmart Mar 2019 #11
I could not agree more. Throckmorton Mar 2019 #21
sad truth... handmade34 Mar 2019 #30
"we're better than this" - yeah, I cringe too. llmart Mar 2019 #38
She is one of those people that looks at special children as not worthy of bothering with. appleannie1943 Mar 2019 #8
Useless enid602 Mar 2019 #37
Fuck her. deurbano Mar 2019 #9
I second that... handmade34 Mar 2019 #31
DeVos calls to cull the herd. C_U_L8R Mar 2019 #12
I would suggest dumping a bucket of water on her... jmowreader Mar 2019 #13
Hey Betsy ...........................propose all you want not going to happen in this Congress turbinetree Mar 2019 #15
Yes I assume this proposal is DOA in this Congress Gregory Peccary Mar 2019 #17
She had / has some "issues' while testifying or attempting to look smart, kinda has two wires turbinetree Mar 2019 #18
She Is Totally Without A Drop Of Empathy colsohlibgal Mar 2019 #16
I don't think there's an afterlife FiveGoodMen Mar 2019 #19
Evil, cruel, heartless. Dickens described her moral twin. bronxiteforever Mar 2019 #20
'Mr. Limbkins, I beg your pardon, sir! Oliver Twist has asked for more!' Kurt V. Mar 2019 #23
+1 bronxiteforever Mar 2019 #26
What an awful, awful person cp Mar 2019 #22
this isn't going anywhere other than exposing the freak she is. Kurt V. Mar 2019 #24
I imagine people in her social circle don't have (or endure) special needs children LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2019 #25
This is administration is pure evil Az_lefty Mar 2019 #27
Surprised she didn't add "a little more sacrifice is good for these kids". Freethinker65 Mar 2019 #28
The dregs of humanity are alive and thriving in the Cretins Administration. Every single one... Guilded Lilly Mar 2019 #29
... handmade34 Mar 2019 #32
Apparently, DeVos is Ok With Borrowing From Everyone's Future for Billionaires' Large Tax Cuts dlk Mar 2019 #33
What a horrible woman. blur256 Mar 2019 #34
Well said. Could not agree more. These kids need a reason to be proud. F her to hell and back Evolve Dammit Mar 2019 #40
18 million dollars. Or what Trump spends on approximately 5 golf trips to Mar-a-lago... SKKY Mar 2019 #36
This fucking country ellie Mar 2019 #39
watch DeVos being quetioned by Rep. Pocan [5 min. VIDEO] IcyPeas Mar 2019 #41
Hope there is a Hell just for her to burn in. ooky Mar 2019 #42
She is evil personified! FailureToCommunicate Mar 2019 #43
DeVoid of humanity underpants Mar 2019 #44
I wonder what her tax cut amounted to. Probably more than the $18 million. Vinca Mar 2019 #45
She must not think hell is real n/t TexasBushwhacker Mar 2019 #46

llmart

(15,557 posts)
10. People like her and her family never have to worry about a nursing home.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 04:23 PM
Mar 2019

Only the peons do - you know, those of us that are just trying to make ends meet.

The DeVos family have always been despicable. Hell, they invented the ponzi scheme with their scamway crap.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
2. But it is OK to borrow from the future to give the wealthiest a tax cut
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 04:08 PM
Mar 2019

that will increase the debt by at least $1.9 trillion. Got it!

Ohiogal

(32,113 posts)
5. But
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 04:13 PM
Mar 2019

Spending millions and millions of dollars on Assolini’s Florida golf trips is A-OK!

Do those disabled children think they are entitled, or something?

llmart

(15,557 posts)
11. You know what? Maybe it's not.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 04:24 PM
Mar 2019

Maybe that's a sad truth we're going to have to accept. There are many of us who aren't cruel and uncaring, but our country as a whole has devolved in my lifetime to people mostly just not caring about others.

Throckmorton

(3,579 posts)
21. I could not agree more.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 05:49 PM
Mar 2019

"I got mine", and "I'm on board, let's pull up the ladder" are the new mantras for our age.

handmade34

(22,758 posts)
30. sad truth...
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 06:53 PM
Mar 2019

every time I hear someone say "we're better than this" I cringe… obviously we are not... yes, there are many good people here in the United States and we are so fortunate because of that, but... if we were better than what we are living through, it wouldn't be happening

llmart

(15,557 posts)
38. "we're better than this" - yeah, I cringe too.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 07:49 PM
Mar 2019

How can anyone say we're better than this when we allow children to be shot in their classrooms and nothing is done. Or we allow children to be separated from their mothers and lock them in cages while we tsk, tsk and then go on with our lives and wait for the next gruesome headlines?

No, we're not better than anything. In fact, there are a lot of countries out there who are looking at us like an example of what not to become.

We have certainly lost our way.

appleannie1943

(1,303 posts)
8. She is one of those people that looks at special children as not worthy of bothering with.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 04:21 PM
Mar 2019

I have seen them avoid mentally challenged children as if they are contageous or something. I have seen such creatures snub my son when he offered them his hand in greeting. To me, the unworthy ones are the Betsy Devoses in this world.

jmowreader

(50,567 posts)
13. I would suggest dumping a bucket of water on her...
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 04:32 PM
Mar 2019

...but the EPA says the watershed is polluted enough already without the effluent from molten Trump Cabinet officials.

turbinetree

(24,726 posts)
15. Hey Betsy ...........................propose all you want not going to happen in this Congress
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 04:34 PM
Mar 2019

and by the way take a pay cut for incompetence...................your an self serving has been....................

turbinetree

(24,726 posts)
18. She had / has some "issues' while testifying or attempting to look smart, kinda has two wires
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 05:11 PM
Mar 2019

loose between the ears, and I kinda think that one is shorted out and grounded, while the other one flails around trying to make contact with some meaning of her BS..................she should be impeached, and I really wish Congress had that power in some ways, but Congress brings out her stupid....................I just wonder what she thinks of her brother having to come before Congress and testify......................

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
20. Evil, cruel, heartless. Dickens described her moral twin.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 05:38 PM
Mar 2019

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn't know where to have him.
A Christmas Carol.

25. I imagine people in her social circle don't have (or endure) special needs children
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 06:33 PM
Mar 2019

so f*ck'em.

Meanwhile, in a kinder, gentler world not so long ago:



Michelle Obama kicks off Special Olympics

First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off the Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles on Saturday, welcoming thousands of intellectually disabled athletes.

"To all of our athletes, I just want you to know that all those people won't just be cheering for you, they're going to be learning from you," the first lady told the cheering crowd during the opening ceremony. "You're filling us with so much hope. And you're uniting us in a way that nothing else can."

The roughly 6,500 athletes traveled to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 165 countries.

"I want you all to know that my husband and I, we are so proud of all of you, so incredibly proud of you," Michelle Obama said. "And we love you all from the bottom of our hearts."

*** sigh ***

Freethinker65

(10,068 posts)
28. Surprised she didn't add "a little more sacrifice is good for these kids".
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 06:37 PM
Mar 2019

Yikes!

Just wait until the distruction of reproductive healthcare is complete and insurance plans with prenatal, delivery, and post natal coverage become optional. Add in cuts to SNAP and education and welcome to Trumpland!

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
29. The dregs of humanity are alive and thriving in the Cretins Administration. Every single one...
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 06:53 PM
Mar 2019

Dripping in proud indecency.

blur256

(979 posts)
34. What a horrible woman.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 07:06 PM
Mar 2019

Money doesn't equal class. But your beliefs can make you trash. And she is a flaming garbage pile of a person. If you can even call her a person. Holy shit how uncompassionate can one person be. She has hers so screw everyone else as long as she makes another billion off of her holier than thou charter schools. I don't really believe in hell but at the same time I wouldn't want to spend a second in her supposed heaven. Jesus h. Sorry but this really pisses me off. Garbage piece of shit waste of space. I would take 10 million special Olympic kids any day of the week versus her and her putrid family. Nothing good has ever come from her family. They can all go fuck themselves. Utter filth.

SKKY

(11,826 posts)
36. 18 million dollars. Or what Trump spends on approximately 5 golf trips to Mar-a-lago...
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 07:19 PM
Mar 2019

...This is beyond infuriating. It's disheartening, bordering on depressing.

FailureToCommunicate

(14,026 posts)
43. She is evil personified!
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 10:42 PM
Mar 2019

Special Olympics are amazing events, showcasing the triumph of human spirit.

I doubt SHE has ever been to one, or could care less.

Vinca

(50,318 posts)
45. I wonder what her tax cut amounted to. Probably more than the $18 million.
Wed Mar 27, 2019, 07:45 AM
Mar 2019

But they love them some Jesus . . .

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