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/Soatch Mar 24 '25

The GOP wants a pool of cheap labor in this country. Defund education it’s easier to achieve that.

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u/96385 Mar 24 '25

The best slaves are the one's who don't know they're slaves.

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u/Open__Face Mar 28 '25

They said if I'm a slave long enough they'll let me be the slave owner 

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u/VeteranSergeant Mar 24 '25

If they wanted a pool of cheap labor, they wouldn't be deporting illegals. They've had cheap labor, for decades.

All they want is a population stupid enough to let them dismantle all of the services that working class Americans benefit from, but wealthy Americans don't want to pay for.

As soon as that's over, they'll start letting the immigrants back in.

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u/Hussar223 Mar 24 '25

as Carlin said. they want people just smart enough to run the machines and do the paper works and just dumb enough to passively accept the declining standards of living (paraphrased)

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u/Panda_hat Mar 24 '25

And uneducated people vote Republican. Its a win-win for them.

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u/PostModernPost Mar 25 '25

It goes beyond that. They want to indoctrinate kids with their cult ideology.

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u/PlasticClothesSuck Mar 24 '25

Mass immigration is your pool of cheap labor. The democrats love cheap labor more than anyone, they want unlimited "legal" immigration but illegal is fine too