Trump's been re-elected - now what?

The Department of Education was created in 1980, not the 70s.

Now, assuming you are correct that education has gotten worse since the DOE was formed; could you please tell us how you reached that conclusion?
What exactly did the DOE do that made education get worse?

 

The police used to carry a 9mm or .38 Special sidearm and maybe a shotgun mounted in their patrol car or locked in the trunk.
That changed with the North Hollywood shootout in 1997.

Two men wearing body armor and armed with Norinco Type 56 rifles, a fully automatic Bushmaster XM-15 Dissipator with a 100-round drum magazine, three fully automatic Heckler & Koch HK91 rifles with drum magazines and a Beretta 92FS pistol robbed a bank.

When police showed up they found that their bullets bounced off the body armor and they were out gunned by the two men.
A Swat team appeared with an armored car and found their weapons were also useless.
A helicopter had to retreat as it could not withstand the fire from the two men.

The two men fired over 1,000 rounds and the police over 600 and were only taken out after one was shot in an unprotected area of his leg and the other committed suicide.

Twelve police officers and eight civilians were wounded.

After this the police across the nation started to carry heavier weapons....to combat the heavily armed civilian populace which law enforcement found had better weapons than they did.

That's why in 2024, POLICE in the US need to carry guns.

 

And the cops should have wooden legs, the bulldogs rubber teeth, and the hens lay soft-boiled eggs.

 

Average reading and mathematics scale scores on the long-term trend National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): Selected years, 1971 through 2022

The 2020 drops were from COVID.

 

It's actually 54% .

Let's say you want to but a Westinghouse generator, designed in the U.S., made in china.

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About $500.00. 54% of 500 is 270.
So add $270 to $500, and you will now pay $770 for a $500 dollar generator.