Here is an outline of Trump’s budget proposal, which is actually Mick Mulvany’s budget.
Deficits forever.
More spending for the military.
Deep cuts to domestic programs.
Deep cuts for education but $1 Billion for School Choice.
Call your Congressman or woman.
Call your Senators.
Shoot it down.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“Call your Congressman or woman.”
I find “Congresscritter” much more succinct and accurate.
My tax dollars for education, not WAR!
So deeply depressing. Really hard to get fired up about education policy when working people are under such a violent assault.
Why does no one understand, that this Nation needs a new generation of low yield tactical battlefield Nukes . It needs them more than it needs education and saftey net programs .
But the defense budget is a social saftey net . A safety net or those employed in the industry from our troops, to the physicist working on those nukes . I think Eisenhower had something to say about that on his way out the door.
The military-industrial complex is now writing the federal budget.
Trump, with the help of his unfit appointees, is now proving not only that he is a failed businessman but is one with no common sense or compassion. He was thrilled to sign a huge tax cut for the wealthy and corporations who don’t need more money but has no problem cutting $1.8 trillion to Medicaid and Medicare. He wants those who are hungry to have a 30% cut in food stamps over a decade.
People in public housing are supposed to work. How much is it going to cost to monitor all the poor?
HIs proposal for infrastructure improvements will provide 20% of the cost and states, cities and private investors are supposed to provide the rest of the money. Sorry, but I don’t see paying tolls as a way to help workers who need to get to work. If this is Trump’s ‘centerpiece of the budget”, it stinks. The middle class doesn’t need more taxes to pay for the country’s failing infrastructure.
His bigotry and hatred for brown people is showing. He wants a worthless wall and taxpayers are supposed to provide $1.6 billion to build 65 miles of the wall? 2,000 more ICE agents will create more hurt and broken families.
How long are we supposed to suffer under a president who doesn’t read, has an attention span of 8 minutes and gets most of his ‘news’ from watching Fox 4-8 hours a day? Mr. Trump, you do NOT have superior intelligence, good genes and outstanding intuitive abilities.
WE WILL SUFFER UNTIL THE PEOPLE decide that PROMISES by politicians are LIES, unless they actually work for the common good, and obey the law. He needs to be sent packing, but it won’t happen unless he shoots himself in the mouth with something so clearly insane and ILLEGAL that he is HUMILIATED into leaving.
ALL PEOPLE MUST LEARN that we must LET OUR POLITICIANS KNOW that IF we elect them on THEIR PROMISES, and discover that they were LYING, then they will be set packing!
Read toward the end of this editorial.
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COMMENT ONE:
Submitted BY Susan Lee Schwartz on Tuesday, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:29:34 PM
FORMER Assistant SECRETARY OF STATE Diane Ravitch-@DianeRavitchis one of the most vocal supporters of America’s public schools. Her experience as a federal education leader, academic, and education historian means she knows what she’s talking about. Whether you agree with her opinions or not, if Diane’s writing about it, you know it’s important She is a research professor of education at New York University and the co-founder of theNetwork for Public Education, a grassroots advocacy organization.
Learn the truth from the writing of this brilliant educator, who is Politico’s choice for AMERICA’S 50 MOST IMPORTANT AMERICANS.
How Not to Fix Our Public Schools
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools.
COMMENT TWO:
Submitted Susan Lee Schwartz on Tuesday, Feb 13, 2018 at 7:09:59 PM
Here is a small GLIMPSE OF WHY FEDERAL MONEY SHOULD NOT GO TO CHARTERS, AND THE EXPENSE OF FUNDING OUR public education!
OUR CONSTITUTION calls for the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON GOOD! TRUMP IS DOING THE OPPOSITE!
How Charter Schools Rip Off Taxpayers
With 15,880 systems in 50 states, the legislative takeoverof our SCHOOLS, by people with no PROFESSIONAL educational CREDENTIALS IS EXTRAORDINARY. Go to that link and you will be astonished about what is ongoing while the Trump Circus distracts everyone, and the media tell the people NOTHING BUT LIES about education,
DUMBING DOWN OUR CITIZENS IS THE GOAL, but it makes the privateers rich.
Go to my series…because below is a tiny portion of the links to the biggest SCAM in our nation.
They offer charter schools, which offer Magic Elixirs: No Evidence required!
Read but a few of the links. OR Put CHARTER schools , or ‘choice’ into the search field at the Ravitch site.and learn why Iowa Has Plenty of School Choice,So Why Do Legislators Want More?
Read about Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos’s Gut Punch to Defrauded Students
Below, are some links to show what many charter schools offer to our country, and to our kids who’re not kids for long.
Laura Chapman: Reformers with Too Much Money and Time Making Trouble for Public Schools
Indiana: Governor Wants to “Do Something” about Horrible Online Charter School
QuickLink: The GOP’s Biggest Charter School Experiment Just Imploded | OpEdNews
Ohio Wasted $10 Billion on Charters
Arizona: How Charter Schools Fleece Taxpayers
WHY? Ohio: The Profits of Privatization
Michigan Spends $1 Billion per Year on Unaccountable Charter Schools
But the winner of the sweepstakes for charter corruption is Florida. Broward County, Florida: Another Charter School Scandal
Texas Charter Schools Have No Effect on Test Scores and a Negative Effect on Earnings
Arizona: Shuttered Charter School Ran Out of Money, But CEO Withdrew $1 Million
Good News! Phony Billionaire Charter Group Collapses
Atlanta: Charter School Boss Pleads Guilty to Theft of Funds
Texas Charter Schools Have No Effect on Test Scores and a Negative Effect on Earnings