Tag: Betsy Devos

Liberal Protesters

These brainwashed protesting rioters are perfectly suited to become servants of “The New World Order,” a society dreamed up by elite progressives. This order would do away with the constitution completely, in fact, it cannot exist under a constitution. It is a socialist ideology where one of the current wealthy elites would rule over a world society, someone like George Soros or Hillary Clinton. One centralized government, where the populus would basically work as servants to pay for its operation. What do you think the Clinton’s Global Initiative means? Reverse the spelling and you have initiate globalization. This is sad, and I think a dysfunctional educational system is mostly to blame.

Years of union run education have deprived our children of the ability to think outside the realm of what is expected of them. Simply put, unions are a form of socialism, and their infectious influence festers into the minds of those whom they have a hold on. In layman’s terms, a union is a centralized entity which operates on a portion of the salaries of those who are members of that union. The union decides what salaries and conditions are best for the workers, then demands them from those who would employ the workers. The downside being that the operational or management expenses of the union often become intrusive to the salaries of those it is intended to serve.

The workers become complacent, and their productivity, or in this case the teacher’s performance drops. It is an eventual inevitability of the system. At one time, unions were necessary to protect the rights of workers, now they are obsolete, government  has instituted laws and regulations that perform the task of worker’s rights. The teachers unions should be abolished, and a comprehensive curriculum guideline should be established by the Department of Education, one that is historically inclusive, not selective. One that punishes teachers that have an agenda contrary to the United States constitution, or deliberately teaches socialist propaganda to our youth.

I think Betsy Devos may have an uphill battle on this front, but if something isn’t done to reverse the decades of complacency in the union run education system, our country’s youth will become nothing more than a bunch of lab rats for another failed social experiment for the history books.

Secretary of Education Confirmation

Every single Democrat has asked for a different standard of confirmation for Betsy Devos than that of those confirmed during previous confirmation hearings.  The difference between the questions being asked by Republican representatives and the Democrats is so stark it has been hard to watch. While most Republicans ask pertinent questions about school choices or how she would follow the laws of the federal government, Democrats like Bernie Sanders (and I use the term Democrat loosely in his case) asked if college education should be free to everyone and Ms. Devos replied “nothing is really free,’ Sanders went into his usual rant, that millionaires and billionaires would pay for it. He then asked if her contributing to the Republican party made it possible for her nomination. She responded, “I don’t think it mattered.”

Al Franken had the audacity to ask if Devos believed in conversion therapy. At first Devos was so stunned, but she finally responded that all children have the right to a good education regardless of race, gender or economic status. The Democrat from Colorado tried to use the standards of education from Detroit to tarnish Devos’ record of accomplishment, Devos being from Michigan, implying that those standards applied to the state as a whole.

The Democratic senator from Connecticut asked if guns should be allowed in schools. Devos replied “in the case of the school in Montana with the Grizzly Bear fence around it, probably so.” This clearly being a guideline determined by federal and state law, not a matter for Education Secretary to decide.

The Republican from Louisiana asked every relevant question for the secretary’s position. It was articulated in a yes or no forum, several questions were asked and answered with complete clarity of the nominee’s requirements to fill the position. This manner of irrelevant questioning clearly shows Americans, that the Democratic party has gone completely off the rails, with their intent being to put Devos in an interrogation room under a bright light and question her for hours as if she were a murderer being questioned at the police station, asking everything from what day she was born to what her sexual preferences are,  or maybe, what her grandfather bought her for Christmas in 1993.

I have to commend Lamar Alexander, the committee chair, and Republican from Tennessee, for attempting to keep the hearing focused on the relevant issues at hand, and not allowing these discontented Democrats from allowing their disappointment in Trump’s victory cloud the process of selecting the new Secretary of Education.

The theme has been the same for all Trump’s selections for confirmation. These obstructionist Democrats that were perfectly content with the process for Democratic nominees in previous hearings, are somehow extremely dissatisfied with the same process for a Republican nominee. People in the districts where these Democrats are supposed to be representing, need to pay close attention to this self-serving determination by these individuals to forward their own agenda, not necessarily that of their constituents. An agenda they have been pressured to adopt to forward the cause and ideology of the outgoing president.

I truly feel this ideology will be the demise of the  Democratic party. The Liberals have hijacked the party and it no longer retains true American values.