As I keep saying, the Republican's administration is more about chopping up government and selling it off to the highest bidder than it is about performing government functions effectively. The hurricane response is one of the most obvious points, but the other is the public education system. Republicans have been trying to kill it from the inside for years.
Here is an excerpt from a run-in with ex-education secretary Bill Bennett:
He wanted them, he said, to fail so that they could be replaced with vouchers, charter schools, religious schools, and other forms of private education.
This is the same guy who postulated recently that every black baby should be aborted to reduce the crime rate. Now that's compassionate conservatism for you.
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