Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Gutfeld: Trump is ‘crushing it’" video.

And the National Endowment for the Arts.
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@Yearlinphillips "oh why would states do better" Because they did do better. Since the DOE was started under the Carter administration and public sector unions were made legal at about the same time, the test scores of US students have steadily dropped and What is the point of adding a layer of bureaucracy to a function that works fine on the state level, other than burning money? We've DONE this experiment, and we know the result, and it isn't good. Pretending not to understand correlation is not an argument.
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@PhillyLeotardo25 Who are you talking about? There are no illegal aliens in DOGE, all US citizens.
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It's a debt, collected like a loan shark.
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@uncomfortabletruth3831 "I lieu of" What does "you lieu of" mean?
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@danthajedinielsen3561 "Just because you live in a red state doesn't mean it doesn't work." It's worst in blue counties, and you know it.
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@rh-sd7tf "Schools that receive less funding have lower educational standards." <link deleted because the channel won't let me post links> " In the mid 1950s education spending began a rapid increase, from a low of 2.6 percent in 1953. Education spending peaked at 5.7 percent in 1976 before declining for the next decade to 4.7 percent of GDP in 1984. In the mid 1980s education spending began to increase again. It flatlined at about 5.3 percent of GDP in the 1990s, but resumed its growth in the 2000s, reaching 6.1 percent in 2010 before declining to 5.6 percent GDP in 2015. In 2022 education spending was 6.9 percent GDP. " (end quote) We're spending more on education now than we did when it worked. Obviously, throwing money at the teachers unions isn't the answer or we would have the best education system in the world. Several states are passing school choice measures so things should improve from here on out. The decline started when Jimmy Carter legalized public sector unions and established the federal Department of Education. Eliminate those two mistakes and bring in school choice (vouchers) and we're good. The situation with the teacher's union is not comparable with a private sector situation where only the wage workers are unionized and all the salaried employees are not and the union negotiates against the management. Not only the teachers, but the entire local, state, and federal administrative hierarchy is union. There is no countervailing power to negotiate against them. The unions, and the unions alone completely control the system from top to bottom so there is nobody else to blame. Nobody else has input. The local school boards and PTAs are supposed to exercise effective oversight, but the establishment has such power that when parents try to exercise oversight, the establishment calls the FBI director on speed dial to get them investigated for "terrorism". The only aspect of K-12 education not fully under the control of the union oligarchs is the budget, and all that ever happens to the budget is it goes up. Before Jimmy Carter established the federal Department of Education and legalized public sector unions, the US had a world class primary and secondary education system. Now we're spending more and getting less, and we don't compare favorably with other nations in education. They aren't outspending us, they just don't have an empowered clique running their system as a jobs program for teachers and administrators. Private schools can outperform most public schools for the same amount of money. Spending the same amount and getting more for your buck is the opposite of wasting money. This result is not limited to "prep" type schools with larger budgets than public schools, but applies to parochial schools as well, which usually operate on considerably smaller budgets than public schools. Think what they could do with the same per student allocation as the public schools get (and maybe a church subsidy, as well)! <link deleted> Even home schooled children, with the lowest "school budget" of all, and generally without teachers with masters degrees in education generally outperform public school educated children. <link deleted> It is the current system that is wasting money hand over fist. And a much more precious resource as well.
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@robertkroberjr.157 "Magarena" You mean "Macarena"? Why do I keep seeing the 1996 Bill Clinton DNC campaign song coming up in a discussion of Trump?
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In red states, anyway.
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@Kim-sq9gp Tax cuts are not authoritarian. Deregulation is not authoritarian. Downsizing government is not authoritarian. Free speech is not authoritarian. The right to keep and bear arms is not authoritarian. Freedom of religion is not authoritarian. Criticism of a government lapdog corporate media is not authoritarian. Speaking the truth to power in the face of persecution is not authoritarian. Opposition to the firing of employees, the cutoff of their access to funds or commerce, violence against their persons and property, and the restriction of their communication on the basis of their political beliefs is not authoritarian. Disrupting an authoritarian corrupt unelected bureaucratic deep state is not authoritarian. All of these things are the diametric opposite of authoritarian. Conservatism is anti-authoritarian fundamentally and point by point. Leftism is authoritarian fundamentally and point by point. We're on the freedom side of every issue except harming children, and you shouldn't be free to do that. We aren't heading towards NK because we're heading away from it, obviously.
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It's not trade that broke the deal. It's immigration and smuggling.
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@derekwbell420 "Fascism" There is nothing raci54 or authoritarian about Trump's policies, so slander. You see the law enforcement apparatus mobilized against anybody remotely conservative, and you somehow claim to regard TRUMP as fa5cist? Whose rights was HE violating? Who was HE using the legal apparatus to punish for their political beliefs? WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM? Your expressed opinion has no basis in fact. Your party is echoing the Na5is point for point. The Black Bloc is the Brown Shir4s. The "mostly peaceful" riots they fueled, funded and armed by leftist billionaires, is KristaIInacht. Jan 6 is the Reichstag fire. It's all there, including your racial segregation, prejudice and racial and political slander and hate, using government power to suppress and terrorize political opposition, moving to restrict gun ownership and possession, locking down state control of businesses and the economy, media censorship, using schools as political indoctrination centers, mobilizing taxpayer money for the production of partizan propaganda, abortion and euthanasia; all straight out of the fa5cist playbook, including your economic program. Your side is doing all these things, we are not and never were. For YOU to call US fa5cist is projection to a delusional degree. Tax cuts are not authoritarian. Deregulation is not authoritarian. Downsizing government is not authoritarian. Free speech is not authoritarian. The right to keep and bear arms is not authoritarian. Freedom of religion is not authoritarian. Criticism of a government lapdog corporate media is not authoritarian. Speaking the truth to power in the face of persecution is not authoritarian. Opposition to the firing of employees, the cutoff of their access to funds or commerce, violence against their persons and property, and the restriction of their communication on the basis of their political beliefs is not authoritarian. Dismantling a corrupt entrenched unelected bureaucratic state is not authoritarian. All of these things are the diametric opposite of authoritarian. Conservatism is anti-authoritarian fundamentally and point by point. Leftism is authoritarian fundamentally and point by point. We are on the freedom side of every issue except harming children, and you shouldn't be free to do that.
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@cenecasful "gilded age for the 1%" It the latter day robber barons who benefit by the working class being undercut by imported alternate workers (and voters). General prosperity isn't GDP, it's GDP PER CAPITA. Creating "X" jobs doesn't help the common man if you simultaneously import "X * 20" workers to compete for each job.
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@Ennugia "Maybe Lord of the Rings should be consulted, too." You could do worse. In fact you have.
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@scottp5588 "$7.00 for eggs" The rogue regulatory body is murdering chickens to raise the price of eggs over a supposed "bird flu" epidemic. That's not an organic response to Trump policies.
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'Till the haters come around. That's the direction things are currently going, or aren't you watching the polls?
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@derekwbell420 "I thought you voted for lower egg prices and Nazis to return?" No, you didn't think anything of the sort. There is nothing authoritarian or racist in Trumps policies, and you know it.
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