Wanna' Know How?

(Presuming a little bit of non-Kavanaugh news and opinion might appreciated about now, I offer up this little jewel for your Wednesday Morning reading pleasure...)

Wanna' know how our Federal Gummint could save more than $180 Billion Dollars a Year?

Well, children, here's how:

First, deep-six the Department of Education.  Why, I ask rhetorically, do we need 4,000 highly-paid (average salary: $120,000/year), unionized Federal employees to help us poor plebes to educate our young?  And why must they be unionized?  Do they think they need protection from us, their employers?  The American people?  Are they afraid we'll mistreat them?

We have, for starters, local school boards to oversee the actions of each of the thousands and thousands of our schools across the Fruited Plain.  

And then we have District School Boards to oversee the various groups of schools, usually numbering in the dozens each.  These Boards dictate the curriculum to each of the schools they oversee.*

And then there are County School Boards.  These Boards oversee the activities of the various School Districts within their various counties.  

Continuing, we have State School Boards in every state, usually named something like the "State Department of Education."  They oversee their county Boards.  

So, my friends, and you ARE my friends, why could we POSSIBLY need 4,000 bureaucrats as far as 3,000 miles away from the classroom, five levels removed from little Debbie and Johnny and how they learn, telling us how to educate our children?  The short answer is, WE DON'T!  

And, for sweeteners, our Department of Education costs us a nice, round $68,000,000,000 a year, as of the most recent 2016 information.  BTW, that's $Billion with a "B."  Apparently you can't get more recent information from our Gummint about now much of our money they actually spend.  But one thing's for sure: them's a whole of lot of Greenbacks!

Nowwwwww then, how about the Department of Energy?  Good ol' Jimmuh Carter, the ex-President of these here United States, peanut farmer and  Sunday School teacher, caused life to be breathed into this beast during the Energy Crisis of 1973 he created.  Its stated purpose as an Agency was to reduce and ultimately eliminate our reliance on foreign oil.  It didn't work.     

Oh yeah, and the Dept. of Energy employs 13,206 more of those nice $120,000 a year folks, and burns up $115,000,000,000 a year!  And, BTW, doesn't produce a single therm of energy!

So, kiddies, we could save nearly $200 Billion Dollars a Year and put 17,000 otherwise unemployable people out to pasture in one swell foop by just erasing these two unnecessary and duplicative Departments.  

And if their union bitches about their termination with extreme prejudice, then I'd say maybe give them a choice: give 'em a little training and put them down on our Southern Border to help stem the flow of illegal aliens.  

Like the idea?  Call or write your Congressweenie.  Today!

*  13 years of my having volunteered for a District School Board ought to add a bit of value to this opinion...