Joe Scarborough: “I find this to be a bit humorous and ironic considering the President is now asking for $18 billion more than what we…”

“I find this to be a bit humorous and ironic considering the President is now asking for $18 billion more than what we have budgeted. I suppose it is acceptable to raid the Social Security trust fund of $18 billion if we want to waste it on more Washington spending, but it is not acceptable if we want to give a little more money back to the American people, the money they earn. We hear Democrats complain about education. And yet under the Democrats watch, from 1954 to 1994, the education system in America crumbled at an alarming, unprecedented rate. Now they come to us, and they tell us that we have a do-nothing Congress because we have failed to follow their failed approach to education. I suspect each Democratic critic of our policies opposed the Dollars To The Classroom Act, where we guaranteed 95 percent of the money targeted for education would go into the classrooms and get out of Washington, D.C. bureaucracies. Of course this is a dangerous idea for statists because such an approach puts more trust in parents, in teachers, in principals that educate my children in public schools, than in bureaucrats and politicians in Washington, D.C.”