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bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I love CA, but I'm a little worried that my home state isn't going to be so hot in the future. I won't be surprised if the Univ. of CA falls beyond other public university systems down the road.

Regents approve fiscal plan, furloughs

ManintheMiddle · Joined: 20 Oct 2008

Good riddance, I say. Maybe they can eliminate some of those fluff courses, leftwing idealogues, and administrative perks. Maybe--but I doubt it.

California is what it is because of the vast liberal mindset of entitlement. This budget crisis is the best thing that has happened to it since Reagan became governor.

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

I agree. Californians need to learn the phrase "we can't afford it".

Pluto · Joined: 19 Dec 2006

Calafornia's bond rating might get down graded to a speculative rating here pretty soon. (ie. junk bonds) They can't raise taxes because tax reciepts will decrease if they do. So California taxpayers and bond markets are both telling Sacremento to drop dead. Yet, Cali pols have no desire to to stop or halt spending at current levels. Something will have to give.

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

ManintheMiddle · Joined: 20 Oct 2008

In the summers of 1991 and 1992 I was a field supervisor and mentor for Teach for America at USC, which is located in what has become a very bad neighborhood with helicopter flyovers at night and drive-by strafing at intersections during the day and night (sort of like a war zone).

I saw firsthand what was developing into a huge budget shortfall--massive spending on education including bilingual classes for the children of illegal immigrants, most of whom paid no taxes in return. Take those hundreds of millions out of the education budget, annually, over the past two decades and your budget problems in education would be resolved. But tell that to the liberal enablers.

And guess who suffers most from this spending? No, it's the children of LEGAL Latino immigrants who must contend with fewer teachers, bigger classes, and shared materials.

THINK about the irony of that.

RufusW · Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Location: Busan

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

Why "lol"? The productive are leaving the state and being replaced by Mexicans. The tax base is shrinking and the size of the beneficiaries is expanding. Not possible to maintain.

Would you put your kids in LA unified school district?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

No. Just poor. California sees a net outflow of several hundred thousand citizens a year and a net inflow of very poor Mexicans in larger numbers. Whatever you want to feel about this, it isn't sustainable in a welfare state.

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

alphakennyone · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Location: city heights

I think the opening of the Merced campus was a mistake. It was supposed to be a science-focused campus, and the faculty are not bringing in the research funds. The sciences/engineering faculty tend to be paid much more than the "leftwing idealogues" in the history dept, btw, and when they don't bring money INTO the system, they are a bigger liability.

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

alphakennyone · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Location: city heights

Agree with California not being as leftwing as the O-Reilly fan thinks. Prop 187, Prop 8.....and not to mention that for the vast majority of my life, the governor has been a Republican (Deukmejian, Wilson, Schwarzenegger, with a brief interlude featuring Davis). Now, I've only been alive 26 years, but 22 of those years were under Republican governors. Blue state? Really?