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We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

batmagadanleadoff May 13 2018 10:50 PM

We told you that this Kakistocric count fraud Betsy Devos intended to prop up shady lenders to students and the sleaziest of the for profit colleges because Devos is connected to those industries and stands to gain. So here it is: excerpt: WASHINGTON — Members of a special team at the Education Department that had been investigating widespread abuses by for-profit colleges have been marginalized, reassigned or instructed to focus on other matters, according to current and former employees. The unwinding of the team has effectively killed investigations into possibly fraudulent activities at several large for-profit colleges where top hires of Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, had previously worked. During the final months of the Obama administration, the team had expanded to include a dozen or so lawyers and investigators who were looking into advertising, recruitment practices and job placement claims at several institutions, including DeVry Education Group. The investigation into DeVry ground to a halt early last year. Later, in the summer, Ms. DeVos named Julian Schmoke, a former dean at DeVry, as the team’s new supervisor. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/busi ... leges.html

Ceetar May 14 2018 07:24 AM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

I hope someone's keeping track of all this garbage that needs to be reversed/fixed when adults take back over the government.

Lefty Specialist May 14 2018 07:42 AM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

Problem is, they don't even try to hide what they're doing. This is the most anti-consumer administration ever. Don't even get me started on what they're doing to the [crossout:tgco4ly6]Consumer[/crossout:tgco4ly6] Corporate Financial Protection Board.....

MFS62 May 14 2018 08:25 AM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

His appointees have eroded the organizations needed to support the two basic levels of the Maslow hierarchy of needs - Physiological (including food, water and warmth) and safety (security and safety). Later

seawolf17 May 15 2018 06:53 AM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

Ceetar wrote: I hope someone's keeping track of all this garbage that needs to be reversed/fixed when adults take back over the government. Seriously. It's going to take us decades to get back on track.

batmagadanleadoff May 15 2018 11:19 AM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

Charles Pierce riffs on the NYT piece at the top of this thread: All Betsy DeVos Knows Is How to Profit From Schoolchildren If you’re appointed by a president* who ran his own fake university, this is the kind of thing you do. excerpts: It has become clear now that, given control of the government they so conspicuously deride every time they pass a microphone, modern American conservative leaders do see one purpose in having a federal government that collects taxes and has an annual budget. They see it as a convenient institution to be looted for their own profit. Ryan Zinke and Scott Pruitt who, given their sweet-tooth for perks, airborne and otherwise, apparently are of the belief that they were appointed to be honorary Rothschilds, are proof enough of that. Not that these people keep everything they loot to themselves. They spread it around to their fellow smash-and-grab vandals within the American plutocracy. Take, for example, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who doesn’t know anything about education except how to monetize schoolchildren of all ages. The New York Times tells us that DeVos pretty much has disabled the alarm system at the DOE as regards for-profit college scams. Of course, there is nothing to see here. Elizabeth Hill, a spokeswoman for the Education Department, attributed the reduction of the group to attrition and said that “conducting investigations is but one way the investigations team contributes to the department’s broad effort to provide oversight.” She said that none of the new employees who had previously worked in the for-profit education industry had influenced the unit’s work. Where do they find these embarrassingly bot-like public liars? How does one “provide oversight” beyond doing investigations? As to Ms. Hill’s assurances that the presence of so many former higher-ed scamsters in the department had no influence in the decision, well, we are once again up against the most serious ontological question about this administration: How many foxes do there have to be before the henhouse becomes a foxhouse? https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/p ... ges-fraud/

d'Kong76 May 16 2018 01:17 PM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

This dawned on me yesterday and I forgot to point it out... shouldn't Betsy be a countess and not a count?

Ceetar May 16 2018 02:12 PM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

d'Kong76 wrote: This dawned on me yesterday and I forgot to point it out... shouldn't Betsy be a countess and not a count? much like Stormy Daniels with trump, there's not really an o there.

batmagadanleadoff May 16 2018 02:27 PM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

That's right! The O's not supposed to register. It's silent. And invisible.

d'Kong76 May 16 2018 02:58 PM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

Oh c'mon, it was a funny.

Ceetar May 16 2018 03:03 PM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

d'Kong76 wrote: Oh c'mon, it was a funny. I thought it might've been but it doesn't seem, you know, funny.

d'Kong76 May 16 2018 04:30 PM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

Sorry, Mr. Seriouspants.

Ceetar May 17 2018 07:36 AM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

d'Kong76 wrote: Sorry, Mr. Seriouspants. It's alright, not everyone can be as gifted a comedian as me.

batmagadanleadoff Nov 24 2018 08:50 AM Re: We Don't Need No Education: The Count Betsy Devos Thread

House Democrats Pile On to Scrutinize DeVos For two years, Democrats watched with fury as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sought to dismantle nearly every significant Obama administration education policy. Now, they’re gearing up to fight back. Lots of them. As many as five Democratic-led House committees next year could take on DeVos over a range of issues such as her rollback of regulations aimed at predatory for-profit colleges, the stalled processing of student loan forgiveness and a rewrite of campus sexual assault policies. “Betsy DeVos has brought a special mix of incompetence and malevolence to Washington — and that’s rocket fuel for every committee in a new Congress that will finally provide oversight,” said Seth Frotman, who resigned as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s top student loan official earlier in protest of Trump administration policies likely to be examined by Democrats. https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018 ... ts-1012544 It's about time this fucking typewriter who bullied her way into politics with lotsa money gets hers. If it weren't for Citizens United, this laughing stock of the education world would be selling muffins at her local church. Cant wait for the House to grill this vapid idiot. There won't be no five minute time limits on the congresspersons' questions, I can tell you that. DeVos is so fucking stupid, she's gonna need notes just to tell Congress what her own name is.,