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People are afraid of closing the Department of Education.
Don't worry.
I graduated in 1975.
The Department of Education started in 1978.
I spent my whole educational experience without the DOE. People my age are able to read and write. We actually know which bathroom to use.
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Mr. Hartman is using the term 'Bribery' with respect to the enormous annual monetary, stock tips and favors corporate America's lobbyists 'give' to our elected representatives and senators at the federal as well as at state levels. This is a legal concept with respect to influencing the people who are elected to make financial and moral choices on behalf of the voters; members of both parties are criminally guilty, and morally debased. However, via the Supreme Court and Congress' refusal to define healthcare as an essential 'right' by law and via our constitution, all our elected representatives are happy white collar criminals.
We, the voters, have allowed this system to exist, persist and debase our system of governance. Various laws state that it is unconstitutional to impose term limits on any of our elected officials; however, until we have returned our country to a system of laws we certainly can dumb down our individual voting practices by simply NEVER voting for an incumbent, regardless of which party s/he is from, and regardless of whether the uncertainty of replacements might be worse. UNTIL all politicians realize that voters want SERVICE and ONE TERM and NO PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS, well the bribery charade will continue.
Mr. Hartman's citation: According to Open Secrets, the amount spent just last year bribing Congress to keep our healthcare system in place was $689,466,798.00. Almost three-quarters of a billion dollars. In exchange, the health insurance industry took home $19 billion in profits last year, hospitals took home over $70 billion in profits, and the pharmaceutical industry made similarly huge profits last year: at least $100 billion. And that was after each of these three industries — that have a stake in keeping our healthcare system as broken and dysfunctional as possible — had handed out billions in compensation to their senior executives and board members. Not to mention stockholder dividends. So the healthcare industry made out well. Its executives are buying third and fourth mansions in the Swiss alps. It’s lobbyists are enjoying $3000 bottles of wine with dinner. And the politicians it owns are becoming multimillionaires.