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    many of the communities that rely most heavily on federal dollars are in Republican-led states, which tend to spend less on education and often have higher child poverty rates.

    Sounds like socialism, which Republicans hate. Good on them for sticking by their principles! … Oh, wait …

    “We don’t have a problem with the federal Department of Education being dissolved,” said Dr. Willingham, a Republican. “We have a problem with funding being taken from our children.”

    So you want the money with no oversight? Didn’t you guys just take a chainsaw to the federal government because of “waste and fraud”? How do you think money without oversight is going to work out?

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      So you want the money with no oversight? Didn’t you guys just take a chainsaw to the federal government because of “waste and fraud”? How do you think money without oversight is going to work out?

      Think? No, they reacted. Thinking hard.

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        Perhaps if there were an allegorical story about how you shouldn’t trust politicians delivered the by the politician in question, maybe they would have understood then

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      Easier to steal the money that way and/or funnel it into bible study in a public school, of course that’s what they want.