Obama Fiscal Commission: cut funding to UN ($300 million) and Safe Schools Czar Office (save $1.8 taxpayer dollars)

That's all, just $1.8 billion for a 'department' run by a 'czar' invading our

• children's lives in schools
  
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• we pay for, and who
  

• is not accountable to masochistic taxpayers who are cheerfully robbed to pay for it.
  

11/10/10, "Cut UN funding, Obama's fiscal commission says in draft report," CNS News

• 11/10/10, "Fiscal Commission calls for elimination of Safe School Czar's Office," CNS News

“In the President’s budget, funding for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools is more than double the allocation from 2008,” says the draft report, released on Wednesday.

• “This option eliminates the office, saving about $1.8 billion in 2015. While school safety should be protected,
  
• violence and drug abuse are problems that occur far less on school grounds than elsewhere.”

“As CBO [Congressional Budget Office] points out in the Budget Options Volume 2 report,

• children are more likely to be victims of violence away from school,
  

and while drug use is more common than violence, it still occurs

• infrequently on school property,” the report says.

“Further, the results hoped for in creation of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools

• have not been demonstrated,” states the report.

For a decade, Jennings ran the organization Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), of which he was also a founding member. The organization advocated gay-straight alliance clubs in public high schools."...

via Weasel Zippers

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• P.S. I was extremely unhappy with Bush for the last 6 of his 8 years as were many others. That was the origin of the Tea Party. Bush was and is an out of touch globalist. Obama is much worse. The point is, our system is corrupted and must be fixed by getting new people in. ed.

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