Jimmy Carter – Lee Duigon

Jimmy Carter, who oversaw the Education Department's ...

The legacy of Jimmy Carter

First let me say that my entire educational experience happened before Congress and Jimmy Carter created the Dept. of Education in 1979. I can’t think of anything I’ve seen or heard of that has made American education better since then: and I say that as someone who has spent hundreds of days teaching in public school.

Today–yes, today–President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to shut down the Dept. of Education (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-set-sign-executive-order-shuttering-department-education-rcna197191). For the hysterical set, this does NOT mean “shutting down the schools.”

The new Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, has already dismissed half the DOE workforce. (Alarmists take note: this is not “firing the teachers.”)

The president can’t wave a magic wand and make the DOE disappear. The plan seems to be “to make it nearly impossible for remaining employees to carry out their work.”

It’s going to lead up to a helluva war with the teachers’ unions.

But we used to be able to do without them, too.

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Some things never change! Democrats and their mania for raising taxes, just to name one.

Return with me to good old 1984. Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter’s vice president, has just received the Democrat presidential nomination, and the crowd on the floor is gleefully celebrating.

First he said, “Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won’t tell you. I just did.”

The crowd continued to whoop it up. And in an aside that was later to become, er, famous, Mondale remarked, “Look at ’em. We’re going to tax their ass off.” ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/781144/posts ).

That’s what never changes.

That’s why our national debt exceeds $18 trillion.

Will we ever, ever, ever learn?