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If Republicans have their way, education funding will be cut down to a bare minimum in their effort to trim a budget
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There is absolutely no evidence to show that taxing and spending money at the federal level has helped education, it simply puts another group of people that have to be paid before the money ultimately goes to students, very little of it makes it to the classroom. The Department of Education is a proven failure. The money would be much better if collected and spent at the local level.
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Republicans are proposing cuts of $873 million from energy research and $886 million from the 10 national labs that operate the nation?s heavy-duty physics facilities.
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If the research is valuable, private industry would be investing in it. When government money is spent on research, its all about researchers and schools doing a money grab, when private industry does it, its about results.
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Republicans want to prohibit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from funding a Climate Service, part of a $338 million cut to NOAA research that would track global warming
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Global warming is a farce, get over it, any money spent on it is nothing but a money grab.
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Republicans also plan to eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds and supports programs like the Public Broadcasting System?s (PBS) ?Sesame Street? and ?NewsHour,? as well as National Public Radio?s ?All Things Considered? and ?Morning Edition,? among others. NPR receives only about two percent of its funding from the federal government. For PBS, it is about 15 percent.
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Have you watched PBS recently? The shows are full of agenda. Worse with NPR. If people really wanted to hear this crap, then there would be no problem with private industry spewing it. FOX doesn't get federal funding, nor should NPR.
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Another big target of Republicans is the public school system. It?s no secret that Republicans hate public education. They believe in private schools, where they can deny any child an education and hire ideologically pure teachers whether or not they are qualified to teach. Many on the extreme right wing have criticized public schools for not indoctrinating students in the Christian religion.
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Schools are increasingly pushing agendas. I should get a say in what agendas I want my children exposed to. There is nothing wrong with private school (or home schooling). Have you listened to your kids recently? There is no question that progressive agendas are being pushed at public schools. With private schools, if you don't like the agenda at one, you pick another, problem solved.