California’s economic nightmare is about to get a whole lot worse.
If we were reading our local newspapers, we’d know that the budget compromise that Governor Schwarzenegger has nearly worked out with the Republicans and Democrats in the state legislature will do massive damage to California’s schools and economic future.
$8 billion will be cut from K-12 and community colleges. Another $800 million plus from the Cal State and UC systems.
Basically, as Californians by the tens of thousands are tossed out of work and not able to find another job, they won’t be able to find the classes they need to pursue the training and education they need.
To magnify the problem, schools will be laying of hundreds, maybe thousands of educators and support staff. This is our Republicans’ idea of a stimulus.
So as the Bush Depression accelerates at a reckless pace in California our state government is taking off the seatbelt and disarming the air bags.
The worst part is it seems that nobody notices what’s going on. I know more people read the news now. But since more and more people get their information online, they may never even come across local reporting.
Without a front page we’re forced to skim, life becomes an endless BS bitch session about Net Neutrality or Zionists or Miley Cyrus’ slant eyes.
If we were reading our local paper, we’d know that a minority of Republicans in the State Senate and Assembly are holding our collective future hostage.
The only taxes they’ll even consider are those that punish the working poor while slashing services. It’s Bush logic that’s been rejected again and again. But because of California’s insane budgeting process, it’s happening again in the most Progressive state in the Union.
This generation has never seen the likes of the crisis that’s about to hit California. And the Republicans in this state will get away with it, if they can keep news about their dirty work contained to the front page of our local newspapers.
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Comments ( 11 )
kevo | Feb 13 2009 at 5:38 pm |Bitch, bitch, bitch. Because Democrats NEVER do anything wrong, right?
Give me a break…
smitty | Feb 13 2009 at 5:43 pm |I love your lack of cited sources and any depth of explanation. Instead, you basically resort to saying, “OMG! REPUBLICANS BAD! BAD BAD REPUBLICANS.”
Do you even know how to write a well-informed and researched article?
Jason | Feb 13 2009 at 8:01 pm |A well-researched and informed article: http://www.myspace.com/justbutts
The Steve | Feb 17 2009 at 8:10 am |Republicans want to destroy the public school system, because they send their kids to private schools.
rev | Feb 17 2009 at 8:56 am |Republicans only support things they can rape, destroy, corrupt, pimp, plagiarize, lie about or make a buck off of. Total cretins.
JasonHears | Feb 17 2009 at 9:13 am |Anyone in California knows what’s going on, and has no doubt about the Republicans in our State Assembly playing obstructionist with the passage of this budget. Even with the compromised slashed budget for funding education for our kids, the Republicans are still playing politics until tens of thousands of State employees are pink-slipped out of a job. That’s their stimulus. They think they’re saving the country by slashing down our government. But all their doing is destroying our future by laying waste to everything we’ve built to make our society great.
Wrong | Feb 17 2009 at 9:41 am |Quite the opposite, I think the republicans are doing a great job and they don’t even know it. For real change to occur, I mean the kind of fundamental change that motivates you to get into rehab, and not the kind of change that you wake up from a night of heavy drinking then exclaiming you’re never going to drink again, we need this catastrophe. Maybe this catastrophe will help EVERYBODY (republicans, independants, democrates, greens, libertarians, etc.) realize one fundamental fact that nobody seems to notice, that CONSTANTLY SPENDING MORE MONEY THAN YOU HAVE will eventually lead you to be broke…. and it doens’t matter what you call yourself, democrate, republican, simitarianist (I made that one up);
Rather than blaming “republicans” why not blame legislature. If you ask me, spending more money that we don’t have now is only going to exasperate the situation further (which is a good thing if it brings about the fundamental change to kick everybody out of office).
You're terrible ^ | Feb 17 2009 at 10:22 am |Knew it would only be a matter of time before the shock doctrine crept its way into this discussion. great work, jerk. i hope you lose everything.
Bonny | Feb 17 2009 at 11:19 am |“This is our Republicans’ idea of a stimulus.”
And the democrats’ idea of a stimulus is raising taxes.
See what happens when you boil down an issue to partisan nonsense?
sobe | Feb 17 2009 at 12:52 pm |lolcons
Go | Feb 17 2009 at 2:18 pm |Being a republican is not about politics: it’s about anger (always mad, upset, distraught about something), enemies (more important than friends because it gives them clear objects to hate and attack), and privilege (although I appear to hate to admit it, I’m better than you therefore I resent you). It’s not surprising so many people are republicans: their lives are filled with anger, bitterness and resentment. Winning makes them feel good. Right or wrong doesn’t matter.