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[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 69 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Fascists: Let's destroy the part of the government that educates our people.

Also fascists: We're just smol bean megacorps that are FORCED to hire people from out of the country to find anyone competent! Why aren't native born USians educated?!? Must be because we react to sitcoms wrong.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 16 points 11 hours ago

This country is trying so hard to burn itself down

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 26 points 12 hours ago

Fucking Vivek, lol. Another Harvard undergrad, Yale law graduate finance bro complaining about there not being enough engineers in the US.

He's right up there with all the other suit wearing, ivy league chuds and podcast bros that have been telling everyone (guys, specifically) that college is a woke DEI scam and to go to trade school instead while they sit in air conditioned offices.

[–] Balefirex@hexbear.net 36 points 13 hours ago

looked up the rep, this guy has tried this twice before

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 45 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 23 points 12 hours ago

we're really gonna start wearing this emoji out, we should consider stockpiling replacement parts

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 14 points 11 hours ago
[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 30 points 13 hours ago

American politicians having the 8 year old boy brainpan again.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 25 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Compared to the rest of the government, the DoEd is tiny. They make up a negligible amount of Federal employees (rounds to 0%), and have a relatively small budget (less than 2%).

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 18 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

~~DoE is the department of Energy, this is the DoEd. Other than that you're correct.~~ (post was edited)

The overwhelming majority of DoEd-associated government employees are associated with student loans or state run programs like Vocational Rehabilitation services.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 20 points 12 hours ago

Ah but if we got rid of that 2%, we could add that straight into our concentration camp budget!

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 44 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Bruh who is gonna deal with the loans?

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 42 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Maybe comrade Trump is planning to eliminate all student debt by destroying any records of their existence?

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 38 points 13 hours ago

Doing project mayhem accidentally

[–] picklemeister@hexbear.net 32 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

i think debtor's prisons and roping in student debt is more likely, musk was out retweetering bukele on expanding slave labor

[–] someone@hexbear.net 14 points 11 hours ago

Mandatory military service for anyone who gets delinquent with loans. A reverse GI bill.

[–] Sulv@hexbear.net 12 points 13 hours ago

God I hope so

[–] RION@hexbear.net 5 points 10 hours ago

I've heard it said they would be punted over to the treasury

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 33 points 14 hours ago

It's been referred to committee, who knows it if it will make it back out. I'd say that I don't expect it to come to a vote, but I'm not making any predictions at this point. I mean the Republican party has been trying to get rid of public school for some time.

[–] crime@hexbear.net 31 points 15 hours ago

Man, isn't Kansas still suffering pretty hard from all their education cuts in the Brownback era? I'm sure this won't be like a larger scale, worse version of that

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 25 points 14 hours ago
[–] kristina@hexbear.net 28 points 15 hours ago