McInnis Out-Crazies Norton? 'Eliminate' STATE Education Department?

by: Colorado Pols

We, along with the Denver Post and various other amused parties, have talked quite a bit about GOP Senate candidate Jane Norton's call to 'abolish' the federal Department of Education. The Post's examination of the issue last December found that Norton was pretty distantly behind the times with this Reagan-era canned prescription for "reform," and it's not a talking point we expect to see repeated much once her Tea Party-centric primary is over.

Somebody really ought to get that message to gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis though, and check in on what McInnis is actually talking about--state versus federal departments for one thing, since there's a difference.

http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/11813/mcinnis-outcrazies-norton-eliminate-state-education-department

Republican asshats in Washington cut taxes, and this cuts blocks grants to the states. Push the funding down where it belongs, they say.

Republican asshats in the State Capitol cut taxes, and this cuts state funding to everything from education to road construction. Push the funding down where it belongs, they say.

Republcian asshats on City Council cut taxes, and suddenly the local swimming pool can't open this summer because they don't have the funds to maintain it.

Pack of gibbering morons, so say I.

only affects the poor and working classes, who don't need that stuff anyway - they should be working, not swimming or "learning". The rich need cheap labor.

See, it makes sense.....

mark

They can afford Club Med, so who needs the local park?
They wouldn't be caught dead on public transit, so why pay for it?
After-School Programs? They've got nannies.
Police Officers? They've got gated communities.

etc. etc.

so it's our fault for not being good enough, but since it's god's plan, we'll be better off in heaven. See? They are looking out for us in the eternal sense....

ask the pope.


mark