Education Secretary Arne Duncan is coming to Michigan! Right to Detroit, in fact. He will be accompanied by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Detroit Mayor Dave Bing for that leg of the grand tour. It is all part of a forum, created to heighten the cabinet member's back-to-school bus tour which is coming your way across the whole of the Midwestern United States.
Well, whoop de freakin' doo. What is this supposed to prove to us? That Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, serving so obviously as a minion of President Barack Obama, if not something worse, such as a grandstanding public official stroking his own formidable ego, cares about education in Detroit, perhaps? Those loving liberals, they care about schoolchildren so much, they'll spend any amount of taxpayers' dollars to show it. We wonder, too, exactly how cowed has Governor Rick Snyder become that he has deigned to appear with him as part of this extravaganza of self serving public education excess? We can cut Detroit Mayor Dave Bing a bit of slack in this, considering his Democratic background. But a Republican Governor?
It all goes to show that they're all about government control and government power, even in areas where parents rights and local control ought to be sacrosanct. Because, after all, all those professional educators, all those government bureaucrats, they're for the children. Apparently more so than their parents are.
We cannot think of a greater example of hubris than in government concern for education. And in this we indict government concern at any and every level, but especially at a federal level. What can they really know of education, when such ideals are hidden deep within a trillion dollar budget?
They can know how to ride into Michigan wearing white hats atop white stallions. In reality, that's all we really need to know about such fatuous do-gooders.
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