Waching daily May 28 2017

DONALD TRUMP HAS RELEASED HIS BUDGET PROPOSAL, AND OF

COURSE THERE IS A LOT OF NEWS CIRCLING AROUND REGARDING

CERTAIN ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS, AND HOW THEY WOULD BE CUT,

WHILE OF COURSE THE WEALTHIEST WOULD GET THEIR TAX CUTS.

BUT OF COURSE, THERE IS ENOUGH ATTENTION ON HOW MUCH

DAMAGE HE COULD DO IF CONGRESS ALLOWS HIM TOWARD EDUCATION.

SO, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE IS FOCUSING ON CUTTING IS A

COURSE FUNDING TOWARDS EDUCATION.

HE WANTS TO CUT THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS FUNDED BY $9

BILLION, OR 13% OF THE BUDGET APPROVED BY CONGRESS LAST MONTH.

KEEP IN MIND, CONGRESS IS NOT VERY GENEROUS TOWARDS

EDUCATION, SO FURTHER CUTS WOULD BE DISASTROUS TOWARDS ñ

FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND GRADESCHOOL STUDENTS.

HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF THE DOLLARS WOULD GO TOWARDS

CHARTER SCHOOL AND VOTER INITIATIVES, WHILE ANOTHER

$1 BILLION IN GRANTS WHEN ENCOURAGE STATES TO A TWO ñ

TO ADOPT SCHOOL CHOICE POLICIES.

I THINK I WOULD HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH BETSY DEVOS, WHO

HAS BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS AND SO-CALLED

SCHOOL CHOICE.

ON A GRADE SCHOOL LEVEL, THIS COULD HAVE VERY NEGATIVE

RAMIFICATIONS IN THE FUTURE, CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT

AS SOON AS EVERYTHING IS PRIVATIZED, NOBODY IS GOING

TO GIVE YOU VOUCHERS.

SO, IF YOU ARE POOR AND YOU CAN'T AFFORD PRIVATE EDUCATION

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO WITH YOUR CHILDREN.

BUT THIS ALSO IMPACTS COLLEGE EDUCATION, BECAUSE THE

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GIVING OUT

THINGS LIKE PELL GRANTS, SUBSIDIZING STUDENT LOANS,

THINGS LIKE THAT.

AND CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT STUDENT LOAN DEBT HAS SURPASSED

CREDIT CARD DEBT, AND WILL NOW ñ AND WE ARE NOW MORE THAN $1.3

TRILION DOLLARS IN DEBT WITH STUDENT LOANS, THIS COULD

BE A HUGE PROBLEM.

SO, EISENHOWER TALKED ABOUT, AS HE WAS LEAVING, THAT EVERY

DOLLAR WE SPEND ON GUNS, OR BOMBS, OR AIRPLANES TO DROP

THOSE BOMBS, AND I'M WILDLY PARAPHRASING HERE, IS A CRIME

AGAINST A PERSON WHO IS NOT FED WHEN THEY ARE HUNGRY, AND A

CHILD WHO DOESN'T GET AN EDUCATION, ETC.

YOU SHOULD READ THE ACTUAL QUOTE, IT IS MUCH BETTER

THAN I JUST SAID.

ONE OF THE REASON THEY ARE SLASHING ALL THESE BUDGETS,

AND SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICAID, IS BECAUSE THEY

NEED TO INCREASE SPENDING ON DEFENSE.

SO, TRUMP SAYS THAT EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE THE LARGEST DEFENSE

DEPARTMENT IN HISTORY OF THE WORLD ñ

WE LAPSE OTHER NATIONS AND HOW MUCH WE SPEND ñ

HE IS GOING TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON DEFENSE, AND IN ORDER TO

DO THAT HE HAS TO MAKE CHOICES, HARD CHOICES.

SO HE SAYS, YOUR KIDS ñ SOME OF THEM, BECAUSE OF THE PELL

GRANT LOSSES, ETC. ñ ARE NOT GOING TO GET AN EDUCATION.

BECAUSE THE DEFENSE CONTRACTORS HAVE TO GET PAID ñ I MEAN,

WE HAVE TO BE "SAFER" BY PALMING MORE MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES,

EVEN HAS NOT MADE US SAFER AT ALL, AS WE SEE BOMBS GOING

OFF HERE AND IN PLACES LIKE THE UK ñ THAT'S OUR ALLIES, RIGHT?

I AM WHAT YOU TAKE FROM YOUR KIDS ANYWAY.

THEY DON'T GET TO LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM, WHAT DO I CARE?

I'M DONALD TRUMP, I INHERITED $200 MILLION, I DON'T CARE, SO

I'M GOING TO BURN THE BRIDGE AFTER ME.

AND BETSY DEVOS AND HER BUDDIES IN PRIVATE EDUCATION?

THEY ARE GOING TO GET PAID TOO.

AND IN MICHIGAN, WHERE BETSY DEVOS IS FROM, SHE INVESTED A

LOT OF MONEY INTO THOSE PRIVATE CHARTER SCHOOLS, THEY

ACTUALLY DID WORSE THAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, BUT SHE BURIED THAT.

ALSO, KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS ISN'T ONLY GOING TO IMPACT

PEOPLE THAT GO TO TRADITIONAL COLLEGES.

ONE THING I DONALD TRUMP, AND AT LEAST REPUBLICANS IN

GENERAL, FOR TENDED TO CARE ABOUT, WAS SUPPORTING TRADE

SCHOOLS, AND EDUCATION THAT IS MORE FOCUSED ON A SPECIFIC

PROFESSION, AS OPPOSED TO GOING TO A TRADITIONAL FOUR SCHOOL

COLLEGE ñ FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE, AND THEN GRAD SCHOOL AND ALL THAT.

BUT UNDERSTAND THAT HE WANT TO CUT FUNDING FOR THOSE TRADE

SCHOOLS AS WELL.

WANT TO CUT STATE GRANTS FOR CAREER AND EDUCATION BY 166

MILLION, AND NEARLY HALF THE FUNDING ñ HAVE THE FUNDING

FOR THE ROUGHLY $1 BILLION FEDERAL WORK-STUDY PROGRAM.

I THOUGHT THAT WAS BOOTSTRAPPED.

THEY PRETENDED TO SUPPORT THAT, BUT WHEN YOU WEREN'T

LOOKING, THEY CUT IT.

SO, $9 BILLION IN CUTS TO EDUCATION IS DEVASTATING,

AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE GOING TO GET, AND AT THIS

POINT BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP IS IN CHARGE ñ NOT JUST DONALD

TRUMP, BY THE WAY, THESE ARE REPUBLICAN PRIORITIES.

SO, YOU THINK IT IS GOOD TO GET BETTER AFTER DONALD TRUMP GETS

PUT IN PRISON, AND MY PANTS GETS MADE PRESIDENT?

MIKE PENCE AGREES WITH HIS PRIORITIES.

KEEP IN MIND, OUR JOBS, SOME OF

THEM ARE BEING OUTSOURCED, YES,

BUT A LOT OF JOBS ARE BEING TAKEN OVER BY AUTOMATION, AND SO

THERE IS A NEED FOR TECHNICAL TRAINING.

THERE IS A NEED FOR THESE CAREER, EDUCATION

INSTITUTIONS WHERE PEOPLE CAN GET THE TRAINING TO GET THE

ADDITIONAL SKILLS TO ADAPT TO AN EVER EVOLVING JOB MARKET.

CUTTING EDUCATION FOR ñ

FUNDING FOR THAT IS SUCH A DISASTROUS IDEA, AND UNDERSTAND

THIS IS NOT COMING FROM A SO-CALLED DOUBLE PERSPECTIVE.

THIS IS COMING FROM HIS VOTERS; HIS VOTERS LOVE THESE TRADE

SCHOOLS, HIS VOTERS ARE IN FAVOR OF THESE TRADE SCHOOLS,

THEY THOUGHT HE WAS IN SUPPORT OF THEM AND WANTED TO FUND

THEM BUT HE IS DOING THE EXACT OPPOSITE.

THIS IS JUST A PROPOSAL, AND KEEP IN MIND THAT EVEN SOME

REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS AREN'T IN FAVOR OF HIS BUDGET

IDEAS, SO WE WILL SEE HOW WOULD THIS PLAYS OUT WITH

CONGRESS, BUT JUST KNOWING THAT THE LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY DOES

NOT HAVE YOUR BEST INTEREST IN MIND SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING.