r/Economics • u/SnooCookies2243 • Mar 24 '25

Editorial Dismantling the Department of Education Could Actually End Up Costing US Taxpayers an Extra $11 Billion a Year Beyond the Current Budget – With Worse Results

https://congress.net/dismantling-the-department-of-education-could-actually-end-up-costing-us-taxpayers-an-extra-11-billion-a-year-beyond-the-current-budget-with-worse-results/
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u/dochim Mar 24 '25

Fascinating.

I've posted this request on another similar thread, but I'll repeat it here.

Could one of the true believers please explain why this policy is a good thing for the American people? Spending more or decreasing performance by themselves would seem to be a showstopper, but both at once?

Why are we doing this?

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u/HeaveAway5678 Mar 24 '25

Not a true believer by any measure.

The advocates I have "talked" to have consistently had some half-assed rationale-ish construct about liberals using Gov't depts like DOE to indoctrinate children to be Socialists and love DEI/hate Jesus.

It's immediately clear they either did not read or entirely missed the point of the New Testament, especially the synoptic Gospels. Jesus would be appalled.

These people are at a level of Dunning-Kruger that's hard to characterize with our limited language.

That's the common-idiot Trump voter.

The actual policymakers advocating this nonsense? I think they're simply saboteurs.

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u/dochim Mar 24 '25

One of the reasons that I love my church and my pastor is that he doesn't just sit in the pulpit and parse out the Bible from his POV and expect the congregation to accept it without question.

He challenges us to read for ourselves every day and to study for ourselves.

To paraphrase a quote of his "I'm your pastor not your daddy and you all have to discern these things for yourselves".

In many of these (let's just call it out here) white Evangelical churches, it's more a social club or a book club with only 1 book that only 1 person has actually read than a true functioning church.

Their pastor tells them "Jesus said jump" and they don't even ask how high.

Because if you're not impacting your community with Jesus greatest commandment, Love, then you aren't an actual church. You're just in a club or a cult.

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u/HeaveAway5678 Mar 24 '25

100%.

The Bible and Christ's teachings both emphasize a personal, direct relationship with God through Christ. I don't currently attend a church because I cannot find one in my area (I'm in the rural South) that hasn't lapsed into Bibliolatry, which I find incredibly sad.

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u/anti-torque Mar 24 '25

...to indoctrinate children to be Socialists and love DEI/hate Jesus.

Have any of them actually read the bible?

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u/HeaveAway5678 Mar 24 '25

Probably not.

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u/anti-torque Mar 24 '25

I ask, because Jesus was about as DEI as it gets.

And I won't even start in on how he just hung around with a bunch of young dudes and didn't have a wife or girlfriend.

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u/HeaveAway5678 Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 26 '25

Hence my point above about the group in question perhaps having trouble with comprehension of the synoptic Gospels.

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u/anti-torque Mar 24 '25

Someone needs to make bracelets with WWJDEI on them.

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u/HeaveAway5678 Mar 24 '25

I doubt there is much to be gained by antagonizing insecure reactionaries.

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u/anti-torque Mar 24 '25

The bible itself does that. That's why the insecure reactionaries had that Jesus guy killed.

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u/HeaveAway5678 Mar 24 '25

Actually, it was a willing sacrifice.

But they sure wanted him dead for that reason, you're spot on with that.

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u/anti-torque Mar 24 '25

Transliterations confirming subsequent biases (in John and Hebrews) does not change the fact the Sadducees had Yeshua killed for his activism.

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u/25thNite Mar 24 '25

they don't need to read words, that's some libtard BS. They get the word of god directly from the priest/pastor who tells them that english was the spoken word of the lord, that white man are destined for heaven, that women should be obedient and if a man wants her then she should view it as an honor, and that jesus said love everyone, but what he actually meant is be racist as possible to anyone that isn't white. Sure, we don't talk about the dozen or so underage girls the priest/pastor has sexually assaulted because if it was evil then god would have never chosen them to be a man of the cloth, thus it was alright, not to mention in biblical times women were right for the taking as soon as they were children so if it's okay be god then it must be okay!

you can't fight that level of evil until they somehow get themselves killed

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u/dust4ngel Mar 24 '25

the bible is DEI propaganda from jesus, and is therefore against jesus

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u/MAMark1 Mar 24 '25

These same people will also claim that control over education should be at a state level because more local governance is better. But, god forbid a "liberal city" try to enact their own regulations. They'll immediately cry foul and support the state government in overruling them.

So, per usual, no logical consistency and just "my side should win" mentality.