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[This is a tough post to write. For me, there is no issue more important than kids.]

 

Congratulations everyone who voted for Donald Trump. Unless you can afford private school for all of your children, they will not be receiving an education on the same level that you did. And it’s not as if he’s not doing what he promised to do to you, which was not just to cut funding for public education, not just kneecap public education, but to completely, 100% kill the United States Department of Education.

 

The Supreme Court n/k/a FSC (Federalist Society Court) gave him the green light to kill it yesterday.

 

I realize that this plays into the overall strategy for President Trump’s millionaire/billionaire buddy club because (a) their children will have less competition getting into great colleges and excellent jobs (b) their corporations will have a much greater pool of lesser educated individuals to work the jobs that AI cannot and the more workers that are available the less they earn and (c) all of the data shows the lower a person’s education level, the more likely they will vote for a person like Trump and the Republican Party. It’s a win-win-win for everyone other than the 94% of the people that don’t have $1 million in the bank to fund private education for their kids.

 

And whatever Congress may want in the future does not matter. In case you missed it, last month almost $7 billion in public education money (of course predominantly for hiring and retention of teachers as well as after-school programs in low-income areas) was specifically designated by Congress for public schools and Trump decided one night in between tweets he just wasn’t going to send that money to the states.

 

Pound sand you entitled preschoolers.

 

Too bad, so sad, you loser teenagers.

 

And you red hat, red state folks, your kids will take it on the chin the worst. Which states rely most heavily on federal dollars as a percent for funding all of their K-12 public education? You guessed it. Here are the top 15 (in order):

 

Mississippi

South Dakota

Arkansas

Montana

Alaska

Kentucky

North Carolina

Louisiana

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Arizona

West Virginia

North Dakota

Texas

Idaho

 

That’s a lot of red.

 

Which states rely the least (in order):

New Jersey

Connecticut

New Hampshire

Massachusetts

Kansas

Maine

Colorado

Oregon

Illinois

Maryland

Vermont

Wisconsin

Virginia

Minnesota

Rhode Island

 

On the bright side for MAGA, your kids will sink the fastest but those lib kids will get pummeled, too. Why? Because the H8 Administration is going to squash education funding at the same time it is pounding state coffers into submission by cutting off and shifting responsibility on states for everything from Medicaid to FEMA.

 

So, we all get hosed, just you worse. Hope that fifty cent reduction in egg prices was worth it.

 

Meanwhile, kiss any socioeconomic equality, or even hope of it, goodbye.