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Obama, Education And Our Children

Some became upset recently when President Obama scheduled a speech to a group of school children. The reason behind that was they feared he would push his partisan agenda towards them. After some commotion, although no one knows if he originally intended to do that, he gave his speech and it was a good one without partisan rhetoric. But it doesn’t stop there. People are fully aware of his outlook towards socialistic programs, his appointing of extremists in certain fields, and other acts which the majority of Americans do not approve of. 

Now we have another incidence which smells of partisanship and/or socialism. It seems that every tiny point where there can be some way to sneak in politics, his actions point in that direction. Read this:

This week the House is scheduled to approve H.R. 3221, an education lending bill that CBO reports will increase the deficit by $50 billion. The bill includes a little-known provision to give the Secretary of Education $500 million - to be provided to any entity he deems “appropriate” - to develop and disseminate free and “freely available” online courses. This is unprecedented. (Another Obama First: Uncle Sam to Create Education Curriculum: Brian Faughan, Redstate.com)

This bill, according to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) will increase the deficit spending by $50 billion! All the while being touted that it will produce a savings of $10 billion by Democrat Representative George Miller from California who is sponsor of it. And not only that, it allocates half a billion to the Secretary of Education “..to be provided to any entity he deems “appropriate” -to develop, evaluate and disseminate free and freely available online courses. Now that may sound innocent enough, but this administration has attempted to deceive the public and enter into efforts which they know will not be approved. Examples of this are the closed door meetings without allowing Republicans in on their plans, and the entry of a clause by Chris Dodd into the financial bailout bill, AFTER, it had past! That was completely ignored, when he should have be removed from his Senate seat. Here is another paragraph for your reading:

This provision comes under ‘open online education’ in the bill. But if the only goal is to expand online education, why not encourage states and districts to do that? They are already in the business of creating course curriculum. Why break decades (actually, centuries) of precedent, and allow the federal government to design course curriculum for the first time? And lastly, why give that authority with no guidelines whatsoever as to what groups qualify for the money? (Ibid)

This bill may be passed today but it won’t hurt to contact your House legislator to voice your disdain for the bill.

» left by Lorrie Davids (2 years 150 days ago.)

Joel, thanks for continuing to inform us of these things.

» left by Joel Hendon (2 years 150 days ago.)

Thanks Lorrie, I continue to be amazed at the things these people are trying to sneak onto the people of this country. Now that the ACORN group has been exposed and discredited, I keep wondering what will come of it. I can almost bet you that it will be brushed over, a few will lose their jobs and it will once again be up to it's old tricks of trying to get fraudulent votes into the ballot boxes.

Thanks again for commenting.

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