As President Trump makes good on his campaign promise to abolish the Department of Education,

benighted Congressman Eric Swalwell is raising the alarm.

The literal and figurative airbag Democrat warned on Friday, quote,

Education Secretary McMahon just delivered a WWE-style smackdown to you and your kids' dreams of affordable college. Now, Swalwell is

right about something that the Democrats don't usually admit. The vast majority of education

department spending, 71% according to Politifact, goes toward college grants and loans. It's about paying for college.

The Department of Education spends very little time and money on things like school lunches and

special ed and all the other things that Democrats are fearmongering about losing.

The chief activity of the Department of Education is, as Swalwell suggests, making

college more affordable. So let's see how the department has done on that front. I have a little chart

here. It was very simple. I just took a chart from the National Center for Education Statistics,

and then I added my own little marker on here. You see, here is the cost of college education from 19, it was in 1960 or so.

It was a bit flat, ticks up a little bit.

It kind of goes down, actually, until 1979 when the education department is founded.

And then starting exactly when the education department is founded. And then starting exactly when the education department is founded,

costs of college skyrocket with no end in sight.

And you know what the Democrats are going to say.

Well, they're going to say, well, the other thing that happened just after 1979 is Reagan got elected.

Let's blame Reagan.

But you can't just blame Reagan.

You look at the chart. Okay, here we go. Here's the absolute low point for the cost of college.

Then starts to go up under Reagan. Okay, then it kind of plateaus a little bit at the end of Reagan into Bush.

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