Obama's Justice Department sues to stop Louisiana school vouchers

Liberals don't want to lose control of the indoctrination of your children. 

Via Fox News:

The Justice Department is trying to stop a school vouchers program in Louisiana that attempts to help families send their children to independent schools instead of under-performing public schools.
The agency wants to stop the program, led by Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, in any school district that remains under a desegregation court order.
In papers filed in U.S. District Court in New Orleans, the agency said Louisiana distributed vouchers in 2012-13 to roughly 570 public school students in districts that are still under such orders and that “many of those vouchers impeded the desegregation process.”
The federal government argues that allowing students to attend independent schools under the voucher system could create a racial imbalance in public school systems protected by desegregation orders.
Jindal — who last year expanded the program that started in 2008 — said this weekend that the department’s action is “shameful” and said President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder “are trying to keep kids trapped in failing public schools against the wishes of their parents.”
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Obama should have checked with his HHS Department before saying, "I will never turn Medicare into a voucher"

Look who's destroying Medicare as we know it today and turning seniors over to the mercy of insurance companies.

In his convention speech in Charlotte, President Obama vowed to block the Republican Medicare reform plan because “no American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies.” 

But back in Washington, his Health and Human Services Department is launching a pilot program that would shift up to 2 million of the poorest and most-vulnerable seniors out of the federal Medicare program and into private health insurance plans overseen by the states.

The administration has accepted applications from 18 states to participate in the program, which would give states money to purchase managed-care plans for people who are either disabled or poor enough to qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. HHS approved the first state plan, one for Massachusetts, last month.

Here is the video from Obama's DBC convention speech.

And I will — I will never turn Medicare into a voucher.

No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and the dignity they have earned. Yes, we will reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we’ll do it by reducing the cost of health care, not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more. And we will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it, not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Sen. Charles Schumer wants the Government to buy your junk car

Sen. Charles Schumer wants the Government to buy your junk car. Congress is developing “cash for clunkers” program that would provide vouchers to consumers who trade in their old cars and purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles. Some members of Congress want to use rejected stimulus money for this program. I have a better idea. Return the rejected money to the taxpayers or use it to reduce the deficit.

If measure passes, your clunker could bring you cash

WASHINGTON — Car shoppers may have a good reason to trade in their old jalopies for vehicles that get better mileage.

Congress is developing “cash for clunkers” legislation that would provide vouchers to consumers who trade in their gas guzzlers and purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles.

Modeled after successful programs in Europe, the bills are designed to get more gas-sipping cars on the road and boost auto sales, which dropped more than 40  percent among the Big Three automakers in March.

“It will jump-start the demand for new cars, helping our auto industries,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. “And most importantly help families trade in expensive, low-miles-per-gallon vehicles for cheaper, fuel-efficient vehicles,” he added.

Some Democratic senators want the stimulus money that several governors have turned down to be used in the clunker program, to stimulate the beleaguered auto industry instead.(excerpt) read more at chron.com