You know, I am quite curious why everyone is wanting to abolish the Department of Education. Perhaps I am missing something, could someone fill me in?
You know, I've heard this before too...I'm all for public education. First, young, educated people are a national resource. It's not like we just want kids to go to school to make their parents happy; we need them to be able to work. Second, if everyone got just as much education as their parents could afford, it would make society even more stratified by wealth, and it would be much harder for a kid with poor parents to make it anywhere. We have enough problems with this already with county-based school taxes.
Guess I should respond to the OP...if I were President one thing I would find most important is separating wealth from political power. If you have piles of money, use it to get a nice house and a good car or whatever, not to try and control the political process. This would mean severely limiting the amount of money people and companies can donate to campaigns. Another thing I would do is bar private companies from harvesting wood on public property. That's national forest, not their lumber yard. Typically that happens when the lumber company paid a lot of money to somebody's political campaign, so if they can't pay off the politicians we won't have as much of a problem with this anyway.