DeVos: Critics want to make my life a living hell

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In her first full week as U.S. education secretary, Betsy DeVos wasted no time in getting to work to try to explain her vision for education and the U.S. Education Department — and to go after her critics, saying they want to make her life “a living hell.” She also said she has identified people in the department who want her to fail, but vowed not to let them.

Her nomination by President Trump sparked an unprecedented backlash, and she was confirmed on Feb. 7 in the Senate only after Vice President Pence cast the first-ever vote to break a tie for a Cabinet nominee. Her backers see her as a champion of school choice and alternatives to traditional public schools, while opponents say her decades of advocacy work show that she wants to privatize the public education system.

She was met with protests at the first D.C. public school she visited as education secretary, and the San Diego Board of Education decided not to vote on a resolution to invite her to visit the city’s public schools.

In a speech and several interviews, DeVos made clear that she is planning to push the expansion of school choice — charter schools, voucher programs and other alternatives to traditional public schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/02/17/devos-critics-want-to-make-my-life-a-living-hell/?utm_term=.13e04868d9f6&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[C_U_L8R]

1. Do your job or get out of the way

But quit the pathetic whining

[Skittles]

2. GOOD

[iluvtennis]

62. +1000 nt

[muntrv]

3. SCAMway made life a living hell for many of its distrutors.

[flygal]

4. Yes they do!

they recruit so many who can't afford it and yet they gladly take their money.

[jmowreader]

71. Oh, come on. It's only worse than Scientology.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

95. Worked as a lifeguard at a hotel where Amway had a huge function. Was very scary. It is a cult.

They were chanting and cheering around the pool and were whipped into a frenzy. I'll never forget it. The people I spoke to were acting like they were brainwashed.

[spanone]

5. what a bunch of whiney fuckers....

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heat / kitchen

this is what happens when you put billionaires in jobs that require actual skills.

like trump, she has no idea what she is getting into.

[Brother Buzz]

6. I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. - Harry S Truman

[BeyondGeography]

7. 85 percent of American children go to public schools

She bought her way into this job so she could undermine them. Her life deserves to be a living hell.

[starshine00]

11. so true

I want more info regarding this 'hell' though, I can't imagine what a born billionaire considers a 'living hell'...please do tell, Betty

[Alice11111]

63. Right on!

[wcmagumba]

8. I hope she is in a "living hell"...

I'm sure she has caused similar for others and has plans to institute said "hell" for all students and educators.

[Auntie Bush]

57. Make it really, really hell and maybe she'll quit.

Drive the devil out!

[JHB]

9. Welcome to Clintonville and Obamaburg, Betsy

You want to play in this league, play by the rules your own team set.

[Alice11111]

64. !!!

[Jimbo101]

10. They're just return the favor !

[Freedomofspeech]

12. Let's continue to make her life a living hell.

Why don't these rich Bastards just stay home and enjoy their billions? Why don't they leave us alone and stop making our lives a living hell?

[coco22]

31. So,So,True!!

How much is enough. Greedy bastards want more and more and more. Every time they get in power they go straight to everything to make the middle class and poor struggles even more difficult.

I think they read the cards wrong when the fuck ups start to reveal themselves Trump voters will finally start to see the light,I hope.

[wordpix]

40. Poor Cruella DeVos wants to retreat to her lake home (pic)

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/09/amway_heir_dick_and_betsy_devo.html

[Dustlawyer]

73. I know, right?

Couldn't she content herself with being a philanthropist?

Oh wait, she would have to donate money to charity, not Republican Think Tanks and Congresscritters!

[Tatiana]

94. Agreed. Keep up the protests until she leaves us (and our children) the hell alone.

These billionaires have no shame. They think their billions entitle them to rule over the plebeians. They have no concept of civics or rule of law or even the idea of consent of the governed.

[n2doc]

13. I've never understood why a coddled billionaire would subject themselves to this

I guess I can understand Trump, he loves the attention. But DeVos, who undoubtedly has never had anybody yell in her face, seems like someone who won't last long. I hope so.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

96. Couldn't understand it other. She's either trying to make herself richer or is a religious fanatic

who thinks she's doing "Gods Work," by spreading her form of religion around.

[hunter]

98. It's got to be religion.

She's been "called" to open public schools to her creepy cult.

[tblue37]

14. I hope they succeed. Her life needs to be miserable the whole time she is in this position. nt

[dalton99a]

15. Another rich whiner who wants the title but doesn't want to work.

[neeksgeek]

16. I resemble that remark.

[Blue_Adept]

17. WELCOME TO PUBLIC SERVICE - and the life of many teachers dealing with parents!

[iamateacher]

80. THANKS!,You rock!

[suffragette]

18. They all seem to spend an inordinate amount of time compiling enemies' lists.

[rzemanfl]

19. She's just there to launder capital gains anyway. Some hell. n/t

[MineralMan]

20. Oh, poor baby...Call your brother and have him send in

some Blackwater goons. They'll soon rid your department of those nasty, nasty people.

She can push, but others will certainly push back. On her own, she can do nothing. She had better start making nice and listening to all those people. They can, and will thwart her plans.

[appleannie1943]

21. Well Betsy, a lot of parents don't want their kids to be as uneducated as you are. I have a 12

year old grandson that laughed at your stupidity and lack of knowledge during your hearing.

[underpants]

22. Well, it's the AMericanWay

[Chasstev365]

23. Well the GOP has made most teacher's lives hell!

No money, no supplies, standardized tests designed to make students, thus teachers fail, and destroy teacher unions.

Cry me a river, Betsy!

[longship]

24. Your church is Calvinist! Full of Predestinationalists!

In other words, no number of good deeds will save your miserable soul from an eternity in Hell fire. You are predestined at birth.

Rot in Hell, you ignorant harpy!

[meadowlark5]

25. I hope that pampered, wealthy white woman regrets what she got herself into

She most likely lived her life in her little elite bubble where her church members loved her, the groups and organizations she is part of adored her - now she's thrust into the real world. The real land of opinion and demands and opposition.

Nothing would make me happier to see this "lovely woman" slink back to her palatial Amway compound wounded from the lack of love that she probably naively was expecting from the masses.

[katmondoo]

26. YES we do!!!!!!!!!!!

[dchill]

27. Oh, she's getting an education!

Good.

[MedusaX]

28. ¡Pobrecita!

Just like a little rich girl...
Got all scared when she saw a group of those not white public school heathens...

Welcome to the real world Miss Grizzly DeVos...
Nobody gives a f*ck about your title or who your daddy is... If you want to be well received then at least take the time to educate yourself about the programs you are responsible for managing....and work on your reputation before going someplace you clearly fear & detest....

Or better yet ...
instead of retreating to your ride why not try TALKING to the people who apparently care enough to be present when you arrive......

[msdogi]

29. whining

another whiny little bitch, cannot believe so many of the repugs seem surprised that so very many are opposed to them and their agendas..and we are quickly gaining momentum and broad support.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

30. Does ***** hire/nominate/associate with anyone who does not have

a martyr complex?

[MFM008]

32. hey she is smarter

than she looks....................

[winstars]

33. Yes, finally she says something intelligent.

[jeanmarc]

34. Resign and get out

Life will be restored to usual.

It's kind of easy. Or as you would say, Betsy, eazy.

[bravenak]

35. I hope she suffers a mental breakdown

[Afromania]

39. Honestly I think they all are to one degree or another.

his entire cabinet, so far, seems like they are really fragile and, dare I say,"snowflake like".

[bravenak]

45. Now nobody wants a job there besides Chris Christie

[Afromania]

46. Yea, too bad he's getting punked like Mitt did.

Trump only brought him there to make him eat "meatloaf" and make himself feel better at the expense of Christies busted ego. I mean after getting his face handed to him by most of the American public, the courts, other governments, people working for him, the intelligence community there had to be somebody he could show he was boss.

Ah well, couldn't happen to a nicer blowhard, and I still feel sort of bad for his mean bullying ass.....

Well......

maybe...........

no.......

no I don't, not even a bit. You lay down with dogs, you get fleas.

[bravenak]

47. It is actually kinda hilarious how much he bullies Christie

[Maru Kitteh]

36. Boo hoo you precious little snowflake.

Boo freakin' hoo.

[Afromania]

37. She wanted the job

Did you think people would sit by quietly and let you make a mess? The entire country is not the Republican voter base that's going to let you rip them off as long as you say black, brown and poor is bad.

Most people are smarter than that.

[TrekLuver]

38. Awww poor billionaire snowflake baby ....we all feel soooo bad for you.

[Pachamama]

49. She really should have just asked for a nice Ambassador assignment where she could host lavish

....parties and feel important. But like the Church lady she is, she has made it her mission to destroy public education and structure it in a way to spread the gospel as she sees it, so this was her chance.

She just didn't realize that she wouldn't have flowers tossed her way and actually have people calling her out for what she is really about.

[Adrahil]

41. You're damn right we do...

... becuase you are going to make the U.S. education system a living hell. Fuck you, you plutocratic wretch!

[GeorgeGist]

42. Here's wishing them well.

Go To Hell, Betsy.

[eppur_se_muova]

43. Works for me. nt

[Bucky]

44. Can't you evil libtards leave her alone to destroy education in peace & quiet?

It's like living in Nazi Germany only instead of Jews & Gypsies, its the politically powerless oppressing theocrats and billionaire lobbyists.

[LAS14]

48. Response to title: Yeah, that'll work. nt

[secondwind]

50. Take your BS somewhere else, Betsy, we are going to fight you tooth and nail.

[forgotmylogin]

51. Your life is a living hell because you're doing a job you don't understand.

If you're not going to listen to your critics, it will surely seem like hell.

[meow2u3]

52. Cruella DeVos, to the tune of Cruella DeVil

Cruella Devos, Cruella Devos
If you can't take pushback
Resign and get lost
A whiny little bitch just like her no-good boss
Cruella, Cruella Devos

[50 Shades Of Blue]

53. K & R

[LuckyLib]

54. Here's the deal Betsy. You have been asked to lead an agency that you have vilified as the enemy

for years. You have no background in the field of education, no practical experience, and you lack even rudimentary awareness of the laws and requirements developed nationally in this field. In a culture like ours, increasingly anti-intellectual, where teachers are dismissed and the recipients of phenomenal disrespect (because, after all, anyone can be a teacher and everyone has been in a school) we're simply appalled that a know-nothing rookie would be appointed to this position.

Can you imagine a wealthy philanthropist with no background in medicine appointed to head the National Institutes of Health? Or someone without a law background to lead the American Bar Association?

[yellowwoodII]

55. Not Really

I must confess to feeling sorry for her when I watched her being questioned. She really looks like a nice little bridge-playing, church-going lady who believes what she says. She just can't understand why people like us don't share her vision.
I know people like her, and I like them.
I just don't want them running anything, let alone our education system. She certainly doesn't reflect the wishes of most of us.
I can see every cult in the country just looking forward to starting their own schools.

[NNadir]

56. This is true. She certainly deserves a living hell for trying to destroy American public schools.

[roamer65]

58. Go fuck yourself, Cruella.

[Thekaspervote]

59. Oh I see.. you are meant with a great deal of resistance by parents and teachers

Because you have a lot of ideas that have been tried and failed already?? What every happened to a new leader coming in, openly assessing, actually listening then formulating a plan that works for the everyone.

My question to you devos, why do you want a job where you are obliviously not wanted? You have a ton of money, why not go ruin some rich kids lives and leave our public school system alone!!

[Eclectic Scribe]

60. As an educator of 25 years

As an educator of 25 years I hope her entire tenure is a living hell.

[DFW]

61. Well, maybe not all journalists

Just the one that report facts.

Uh, Besty? No one stopped you from telling the Donald you didn't want to play, and on one stopped you from testifying pure garbage at your hearings. Stop spewing garbage, stop threatening to do a lousy job, or resign. Otherwise get used to a LOT more of this.

[murielm99]

65. Then quit, Betsy.

Write a book, or have it ghost-written, telling how mean everyone was to you. It probably won't sell, but it can fill up the discount bins in the dollar stores.

[iamateacher]

66. Did you notice the "moles" comment?

First, who would say that on their first week on the job? What a morale booster! Well, someone whose brother founded Blackwater, I guess.

[Soxfan58]

67. Oh you poor poor billionaire

Maybe you can make another huge political donation and get a different job.

[Alice11111]

68. Thank you! I'm on it.

[LakeArenal]

69. If having a great job is living hell....

What the heck have I been living?

[sinkingfeeling]

70. Resign.

[bucolic_frolic]

72. Whine, Baby, Whine!

Put a little more Shrill in it, will ya?

[Vinca]

74. America's children are more important than a wealthy Amway peddler.

[George II]

75. Just giving it back - you want to make parents' and students lives' living hell.

[DeminPennswoods]

76. Why, yes we do!

How kind of you to notice.

[bluescribbler]

77. Boo effing hoo

Can't wait for the "living hell" to happen.

[GoCubsGo]

78. Well, Betsy. There is this old saying.

If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. I'm sure you have never stepped foot in a kitchen in your life, just as you have never stepped foot in a public school. Perhaps you should leave the job to someone who can handle it, just like you leave your cooking to your personal chefs.

[TNNurse]

79. You took a job for which you have no qualifications

and are getting criticism? Too bad, so sad, suck it up.

[Elwood P Dowd]

81. Then take your unqualified Calvinist spoiled ass back to one of your fucking mansions

and go back to counting the billions you and your piece of shit husband have stolen with your fucking Amway trash.

[Phoenix61]

82. Yep! That's why a happens when you take a job you are not qualified for

Since you've never really had a job I can see how this could come as a shock to you. Deal with it. Get up to speed or get out. The choice is yours. But, please, please, stop whining like a spoiled brat.

[Alice11111]

99. Wow. Compare her and Hillary, what she's gone through

First time for her with major responsibility, where she couldn't buy her way or order people around. She is so out of her element. She is used to sycophants and "respect " because she is rich. Now. She is getting Mama bears protecting their cubs and teachers who have nothing to lose, as they have been treated badly for so long. Most have moved on to other jobs or plan to, but they still want this woman to be accountable.

How stupid DT was to put someone so divisive in this role, but it was a matter of WINNING and shoving her in the face of his enemies...Dems, teacher unions. educators. This is a position where you have to have someone who can bring people together, build trust and coalitions, not someone who couldn't get confirmed , but for the VP breaking a tie. His ego over country or even common sense. What does he think this upheaval does to teacher and student morale? Oh, he doesn't think or care. He won.

[Kablooie]

83. Thats the job when you enter politics. You asked for it!

[First Speaker]

84. She's already in a "living Hell"...

...it's called being Betsy DeVos. Living that life? I couldn't imagine a worse punishment...

[ThoughtCriminal]

85. Well then she better resign now.

The ones who bail soonest will be the luck ones.

[eleny]

86. Turn around is fair play

[Cha]

87. Shut Up Whining.

[Blue Idaho]

88. I can't speak for anyone else...

But I'm perfectly willing to make her life a shithole of unimaginable misery. In fact I'm actually looking forward to it...

[herding cats]

89. Poor thing. She'd better get used to it!

It's not going to be the easy ride she thought it was destroying public education.

Teachers and parents are pissed the hell off. She's not going to get the cakewalk she anticipated. Most people hate what she stands for, it's going to get very ugly in the near future for her. Her early days have been gentle compared to once she actually starts implementing her agenda.

[TexasBushwhacker]

90. Poor baby. Why don't you resign

and go home and count your billions.

[Kber]

91. That's the thing about working with children

When you are perceived as attacking or hurting the kids, their parents tend to get upset and go into protection mode.

[Iggo]

93. Fuckin' A right.

[Iggo]

92. No, we want to make our children's lives better through better education.

It ain't about you, you fucking narcissist.

[Retrograde]

97. No, Betsy, we don't. Really. However,

we do expect you to do a competent job, to drop all your nonsense about funding charter and private schools on the taxpayers' dimes, to learn about the challenges facing the majority of schoolchildren and their parents today, and to move the American educational system forwards. That means fact-based rather than delusion-based teaching.

When you start - and stay- on that path we'll support you. Until then, you're a public servant and a lot of the public is not happy.

[demmiblue]

100. Suck it up, buttercup. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

101. Amateur.

Get a grip and do your job.

[Doreen]

102. Don't worry honey, the rest of us want to make your life a living hell too.

[elehhhhna]

103. Yeah! She finally said something factual.