For me that would be just for starters – Mona Charen in the Washington Examiner:
…It is not kooky to favor the elimination of the Department of Education. That this proposal is routinely labeled “extremist” is a reminder of the one-way ratchet that operates in government. Enshrine something in a federal agency and it becomes sacrosanct. Democrats cheerlead for federal programs because they are the party of government, and Republicans quietly go along because they’re afraid.
But if Republicans know how to argue for smaller government — as Gov. Chris Christie is demonstrating in New Jersey — they need not be intimidated. There are hundreds of federal programs that could be eliminated tomorrow with only the happiest consequences for the nation. And yes, the whole Department of Education could be scrapped. It vacuums up money and produces … what exactly?
What, indeed. Pretty much nothing – and if you could sift through the whole thing and find a few worthwhile things, they could better be handled as block grants to States or as part of some other department of government. We don’t need the Department, itself. At any event, the whole thing was just a Carter Administration boondoggle – a payoff to teachers union bosses.
It is high time we started getting a government which is of, by and for the people – getting rid of the Department of Education would be a good first step.
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