Again WE the USA Must FIX This

[chefdennis]

Yeap. the libs again feel the need to "FIX" the WORLDS "under-privileged" situations....and to use Taxpayer dollars to do it....Yeap spend more money that the country doesn't have, on situations that are none of our business...oh wait, they will just print ot borrow it....you know it is all about equal treatment and benefits for all, spread the wealth, lower our standard of living and increase that of others at our expense....it barrys and his minions way to show that America is out of step and we need to be shown and taught a lesson on our bad ways...

Global Public Education Bailout Introduced!

by Kyle Olson
» Global Public Education Bailout Introduced! - Big Government

As if the $10 billion “public education bailout” wasn’t enough to stomach, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has introduced a bill, titled Education for All Act of 2010 ( http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s3797is.txt.pdf ), which would spend American tax dollars on education systems around the globe. It’s S.3797.

U.S. Rep Nita Lowey (D-CA) has introduced similar legislation as H.B. 5117.

I think Washington has officially lost its marbles.

While no dollar amount is contained in the legislation, the bill states, “Credible estimates indicate that approximately $16,000,000,000 per year of financing assistance is necessary for developing countries to achieve universal basic education by 2015.”

Is Sen. Gillibrand really proposing to spend an additional $16 billion of our hard-earned tax dollars elsewhere?

Does spending money in other countries imply that our system is okay? Or that it’s on a course of improvement? Because in case these members of Congress haven’t noticed, our system kind of stinks.

For example, my organization just conducted an on-camera interview with a 22-year old Detroit Public Schools graduate who couldn’t read. That will be in a documentary film ( Kids Aren't Cars - The Movie ) on our public education system to be released in the coming months.

And according to McKinsey and Co. ( http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/I...s/SocialSector/PDF/achievement_gap_report.pdf ), American students score 25th in the world for math scores and 24th globally in science.

And we’re focusing on funding education in other countries?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe these funds should be spent in the United States. I think they shouldn’t be spent at all, because they aren’t necessary.

But there must be another objective to spending more American tax dollars overseas. Why would the two national teachers unions, which I would think would be fighting for every penny to bolster the pay and benefits of their *American* dues-payers. Do the national unions now want to start organizing globally, ala Andy Stern and SEIU?

From Gillbrand’s news release ( Kirsten Gillibrand - United States Senator for New York: News ), quoting American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten:

“This bill, which establishes a Global Fund for Education, is a step toward keeping the promise of providing a free basic education for the 72 million children around the world who do not have an opportunity to go to school.”

Um, Randi, who made the promise that American taxpayers have to keep?

And Weingarten wasn’t the only union leader gushing all over this outsourcing of Americans’ money.

National Education Association Vice President Lily Eskelsen said, “We are five years away from the commitment to achieve universal basic education and we are way behind schedule. We cannot afford to fail.”

So American taxpayers, open up your wallets; you haven’t given enough.

Washington’s found another way to fritter away your tax dollars.

 

[greg334]

IT is not just the liberals, it is all of them.

Once upon a time there was this man who became president and said "we must do away with the department of education because schools need to be controlled at the local level" but never did a thing. He vowed in his state of his mind address that his next budget will in effect take the department down. This man is supposed to be the prophet of 'conservatism' ... which he wasn't and nothing ever happened except it expanded.

Back in the age of greed and tech bubbles, there was again a promise made that they would get rid of this horrid entity that has caused so many problems but alas... nothing was ever done and it was expanded.

While running to be a president, there was this other so-called conservative who said in his speech during the campaign 'we must limit the department of education because it has taken down our country' but he lost. It was expanded again after that election because the president wanted it that way.

Again there was another president who made a similar comment that the department should go away but instead expanded it under the no brat left in the car program.

Now our great leader, the messiah of his race and our country has pushed to help out teacher's pensions and came up with a great plan to help fund some school 'things', his administration created "race to the bottom" where schools actually have to compete for OUR tax money that will not be paid for by us anyway but those poor kindergärtners who will be faced with the bill when they get to be 20 ... if they can read enough to fill out a tax return.

Which leads me to today where our education system is one of the worst in the world. Even though it ranks 25th in the "industrialize nations" category, it really is worst than many African nations where the people who never even seen a class room know how to do basic math and form whole sentences and know where they are in the world.

 

[chefdennis]

Yeap RR wanted to do away with the Dept of Edu. and all of the things you stated are true, but just like all others when they are running for office, they all say things they can't even begin to do...such is the state of our politic......remember "hope and change"....

And yes it isn't just the libs, but it is the Libs this time and now with this bill.....RR is long gone and even Dead....