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2009-07-21 Home Front: Politix

Schwarzenegger Shrinks California in Order to Save It

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-07-21 13:33|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 A rare bit of good news from my home state.

Posted by Iblis 2009-07-21 14:28|| 2009-07-21 14:28|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll bet most people won't notice the difference.

The Governator should have done this in his FIRST year.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-07-21 14:39|| 2009-07-21 14:39|| Front Page Top

#3 But I'm sure that Free Education, Welfare and Medical is still available to the illegal aliens. Right?

I mean a state has to have priorities.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-07-21 14:54|| 2009-07-21 14:54|| Front Page Top

#4 The Governator should have done this in his FIRST year.

He tried but a special election early in his tunure demonstrated that Californians weren't ready and he subsequently was dogged everywhere he went by public employee union demonstrators carping at him about the disaster that would result from any cuts. Being essentially a winsock he at the time did what the people demonstrated that they wanted just as he's doing now.

Posted by AzCat 2009-07-21 15:50|| 2009-07-21 15:50|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm shocked they didn't just raise taxes and then act surprised when businesses left and revenue didn't increase.

Posted by gromky 2009-07-21 16:20|| 2009-07-21 16:20|| Front Page Top

#6 California's funding crisis is a Laffer minute (geddit??)

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-07-21 19:06|| 2009-07-21 19:06|| Front Page Top

#7 The public schools, already struggling with large class sizes and less technical and support services, must cut an additional $9.5 billion and will lose thousands of teachers and staff.

But not one administrator or members of his staff. Go check the number of administrators the system had in the 60s and the number of levels of personnel between the CEO and the teacher. Then count the number of teachers' aides that existed back then and now. I remember the average classroom having around 36 students in primary school. The janitors having to haul in a extra desk or two at the start of the year. Somehow most of us got an education - and at the level that appropriate for that year's grade.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-21 19:11|| 2009-07-21 19:11|| Front Page Top

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