Every President promises to root it out:
Yesterday, I held a fiscal summit where I
pledged to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term in
office. My administration has also begun to go line by line through
the federal budget in order to eliminate wasteful and ineffective
programs. As you can imagine, this is a process that will take some
time. But weâre starting with the biggest lines. We have already
identified two trillion dollars in savings over the next decade.
In this budget, we will end education
programs that donât work and end direct payments to large
agribusinesses that donât need them. Weâll eliminate the no-bid
contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq, and reform our defense
budget so that weâre not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we
donât use. We will root out the waste, fraud, and abuse in our
Medicare program that doesnât make our seniors any healthier, and we
will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally
ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.
Can't wait to see the two trillion dollars of spending that we can do without. And ending education programs that don't work? Looking forward to that too. The most politically amusing moment of the evening was when Obama mention expanding charter schools and Nancy Pelosi looked lost. She wanted to clapâshe'd been clapping like a maniac all night longâbut there are limits and she couldn't bring herself to do it. Obama also mentioned "competitive" schools but I think he just meant "competitive" as in "good."
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He's going to end the entire US public school system? Good!
Yes Minister "The Economy Drive"
What Emperor Obama really means is he will achieve 50% of the government of GDP by 2017.
He probably meant that he's identified $2 trillion in additional spending that he won't push for. For now.
What he really meant is he's lying but he hopes everyone will soon forget.
Every one of the "lines" that President Obama is talking about has its constituent beneficiaries that will fight tooth and nail to prevent their funding from being taken away. By employing proper theatrical methods, any cut can be made to appear hurtful and unreasonable.
I suspect that most of the "lines" the President talks about are actually mandated by law, so that the plan to eliminate corresponding funding can occur only with the willing concurrence of the legislature. Watch for some fireworks there.
The Chief Executive simply does not have the power to do much of what the President says he plans to do in this respect.
"And ending education programs that don't work? Looking forward to that too."
Don't worry, they'll be canceling the school choice program in DC. The parents seemed to think it was working fine; but they're just the parents, what do they know.
Ref: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44063
Higher standards from teachers gets nothing, charter schools gets one Biden clap, and increased spending and increasing the amount of teachers gets a huge ovation from Nancy Mussolini, I mean Nancy Pelosi. Forgive me, I'm always getting those fascists confused.
Today I put up my School Choice Works bumper sticker on my car. Yeah, the high school chicks dig a minivan with a bumper sticker supporting school choice.