Paulie
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i know that's not something the rightwingnuts make much use of... but some of us think it's important.
what percentage of the federal budget is the department of education?
now what percentage of the federal budget are military expenditures?
Personally I don't have a problem with cutting miitary spending. Simply because I don't believe the military should be involved in a lot of what it's doing. I think the operative word in Department of Defense is DEFENSE. We don't believe we should be spending troops to nation build or world police.
As the the Department of Education, the fed really doesn't have the constitutinaly authority to have one. Education is not their job. Leave it to the states.
I agree with you in part about our military involvement. But there are places where we have a military interest where it would be wonderful if we didn't... but we do.
As for federal involvement in education. It's clear that it falls under the general welfare clause and I'm not going to get into a debate on the issue in this context.
I'm not really sure it's "clear" jill. It's an opinion, and nothing more.
All anyone can really do with the vague clauses in the constitution is interpret what they cover.
One can make just as good of a case that education is not considered "general welfare".
Personally, I place only those things that are necessary for immediate survival in "general welfare". That's why I support the government offering food to people who can't afford it.