Originally Posted by tadpole256

See that's what I like about him... He wants to get rid of the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, The IRS, The Federal Reserve, and a lot of other useless baggage in the government.

Getting rid of the Department of Education does not mean NOT providing people with public education, it means leaving it to the states to do so and to regulate it. Time has shown that anything regulated by the federal government is done so poorly, and anything run by the federal government is done so poorly. Programs like "no child left behind" have been a miserable failure.

Not always. What about NASA and the US military - not exactly miserable failures!!



The best thing we can do for our children is to give parents vouchers for their education, and let the parents choose where to send them to school. The free market does a far better job of regulation than any organized government system ever could.

I agree in part, I sent my kids to private schools but it was very expensive and required a lot of sacrifices. But it definitely was a higher standard of education.

Not everyone could afford to educate their children in the private sector and many more would choose not to.



The U.S. was founded on capatalist free-market ideals, they are what made us great. We started going down hill when we began allowing ourselves to become dependent on the government for everything. We have become a welfare society, and it is holding us back.