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Posted on November 24 at 8:05 p.m.
Great commentary, jcrdan. To build on one of your points, my wife was a secondary school teacher until she realized that the moron in the next room, teaching the same lesson plan for the 20th year in a row, was making twice her income due only to union rules. Needless to say, she left teaching for a much more remunerative career in business. Selfish? No. Economic self-interest and an unwillingness to be exploited by union power.
Posted on November 24 at 5:36 p.m.
Depends on what you mean by "better shape". Let's see now: Switzerland has made a business of remaining neutral and holding money for the tyrants and villains of the world for decades; Germany was the aggressor in two world wars; Canada is a nice place to visit, but lots colder than SoCal and is the source of what worldchanging inventions besides the Blackberry?
The US is not a socialist country, and despite the Obamahaters fears, will not become one. The country is mildly center right, has been for years, and probably will continue so. Don't let the reality distortion zone that is CA, and specifically SB, blind you.....
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Posted on November 24 at 5:14 p.m.
suumersby, you are the one who doesn't get it, DUDE. Do a little reading of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, etc. Nowhere is there a guarantee of a publicly funded education. Not that I disagree with the idea, but the level of entitlement expectation in CA, championed by those who pay least, is truly breathtaking. An education is important, to be sure, especially in a free society. Unfortunately, many people seem to lack an education in the basics of taxation. If people think their money is being ill-spent, as many clearly do, they will not agree do continued taxation, whether or not YOU think they should. California has taken the concept of graduated taxation to an extreme that is now causing its economic downfall. Wake up.
Posted on November 24 at 3:20 p.m.
summersb: hard for you to understand, I know, but this is not about "only the rich" going to college. It's about a state (CA) so profligate with its enormous tax revenue, and so foolish with one-time windfalls that it digs itself into repeated financial crises. The fact is that one half of all CA income tax is paid by 144,000 "rich people" out of a total population of 38,000,000 Californians. If California took ALL of the income from these $144,000 people, the problem would still not be solved. Those people would simply leave CA as business after business has done while CA continues to increase the cost of doing business in CA. The CA middle class needs to pay more tax or cut their demands for government spending. This is a simple IQ test. Unfortunately, the CA electorate, at least the coastal left wing portion, continues to fail this simple IQ test, preferring to believe in the tooth fairy or whatever. Maybe, just maybe, if you wouldn't insist on looking at everything as liberal vs conservative and instead learn a little math and economics you might begin to understand...
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Posted on November 24 at 8:23 a.m.
Ah, the crybabies are at it again. What is so hard to understand? The economy sucks. The CA economy sucks worse. Jobs are being eliminated or leaving the state. Revenue to the state is down (Don, are you reading the CA budget news?). So state spending must be reduced. The UC system is part of the state budget. QED. It's not a conservative thing; its Economics 101, something apparently not taught in CA.
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Posted on November 19 at 5:03 p.m.
Down with the two party system and its idealogues on both sides. Up with coherent thought, civil dialogue, and issue-based politics.
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Posted on November 16 at 8:09 a.m.
Outstanding!!!!!
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Posted on November 13 at 1:16 p.m.
Give it up with the anti Bush rhetoric already. Betcha just hate it that Obama is getting some of the same treatment.
Live in the present and for the future.
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Posted on November 13 at 8:08 a.m.
jcrdan you are my new hero.
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Posted on November 24 at 9:40 p.m.
Indeed. SB Council elections were but a beginning.
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