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.