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232 sats \ 16 replies \ @Cje95 20 Nov
I mean just looking at the basic numbers the Department of Education has been a complete failure. Going from Top 5 to depending on who you ask 20 - 31st in K-12 education. We have and still do fall behind other countries in Math and Science so I am not sure why we burn the money with no reward.
Edit: Thats not to say there shouldn't be some small Agency that does more or less routine checks on what we are teaching kids to make sure we aren't teaching them stupid stuff. I would rather us increase funding to the National Science Foundation which not only does research but brings in teachers to teach the discoveries than pay for the huge ass Department of Education.
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Who is the reason for terrible education? Bad teachers? Bad administrators? Bad parents? Bad students?
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53 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 21 Nov
We spend all the money in the bureaucracy and so nothing is left for the teachers. Teachers should be making a bunch more then they do.
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Good teachers are under paid
Bad teachers are over paid
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53 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 21 Nov
Well I mean being from Texas taking coaches out of the classroom would be a huge help 😂
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If kids are being taught stupid things the parents need to know. Lack of transparency is a big problem.
Education used to be combined with health and welfare or HEW until 1979
Department of energy was also established in 1979
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The US Department of Energy? It was formed in ‘77 prior to that it was the Federal Energy Administration. They added the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) which was just the R&D side of Energy
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Apologies for the wrong year
It was created under Carter to address the energy crisis in the 1970s
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It was there under the name of Federal Energy Administration lol they renamed when they gave it the nuclear stuff from the Atomic Commission that the NRC didn’t take
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Federal energy administration was not a cabinet position
Department of Energy is part of the cabinet
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Dude it was literally part of the renaming process and giving Congress more sway 😂 that’s the reason for Cabinet level it gives the Senate a check on the President
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The FEA was tasked with managing fuel allocation, pricing regulation, and energy data collection and analysis
This is not research
I love Friedman and I love the ending even more! I don't want to be a dictator, and if we can't convince the people, then we've failed. We should never use violence against individuals.
That's the spirit! Individual rights are the most important thing to defend! People can be jerks and idiots, but they have the right to be an idiot!
Do not force the world to do what it does not want to do!
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Justice Defense State Treasury Half of HHS Part of Energy
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What of Energy would you get rid of? Most of it is just R&D?
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How many employees are devoted to R and D?
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… literally 99.9% and the 0.01% is admin 😂
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How many employees?
Edit: 14000 employees, 93000 contractors
There is no way 99 percent are devoted to research
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You understand the National Lab system and all the people involved in that are researchers and this is where the money goes....
lmao does it make you feel better if I say 80% because the Forester building is full of people crunching numbers for data. I guess in IG of DOE can be counted against but again the vast majority are researchers sure they have people that keep the place clean as well you can chalk up as well
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The part that is not military or defense
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The NNSA part is such a sliver… just to cover what you would essentially be erasing is… Super Computing, Fracking, Horizontal Drilling, batteries, and a bunch of other stuff like chips that run the device you are currently using…
Seems to me to be a terrible awful idea. Unless you just want China to run things… then it would be great
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Wiki tells me that our boy Friedman helped design the income tax we have today.
Not sure if that's a great fit for @DOGE. Maybe.
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Consider the context: the year is 1942. Anything significant happen that year and 1943 to 45 ?
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Manhattan Project?
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I was thinking World War Two, specifically the pacific theater
Wars are expensive but this war was important
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Smear campaign begins
Have you ever heard of Milton Friedman?
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Freidman has been getting smeared for a long time.
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Wikipedia hates Friedman because he was an advocate for free markets
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @BeeAye 20 Nov
pretty succinctly encapsulates my beliefs. Friedman is so articulate, poised in his delivery. I love seeing videos of him speak.
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This one is from 1999
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all of them
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There are solid investigations into this. Cut the biggest waste/fraud first:
Unfortunately I don't think Elon is smart enough to cut what makes sense first. He's the kind of guy that cuts for populist reasons or what gives him the most headlines first.
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It’s not a hard problem.
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The department of government
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