Comments on: How CA GOP can have fun with the budget, Democrats

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:36:26 +0000

Isn’t is interesting, how people like you, Mr. Seiler, rail on and on about the “evil” public sector unions, when your darling Republican Governor, Ronald Reagan, was the first politician in CA to sign the Bill allowing local public sector workers to organize. Why don’t you write an article about that, and give the Republicans a little education about that pesky little truth.

By: SkippingDog

SkippingDog — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:15:03 +0000

Money is fungible, John. Even you Von Mises nuts know that much. If you move all of the Prop 30 money to education, the funding for CalSTRS will be readily availble becuase that’s education as well. The money for existing pension obligations to CalPERS will continue to come from the general budget, and the funding that would otherwise be directed toward education would be diverted in response to the changes in Prop 30 allocations.

I guess your opposition to ballot box budgeting isn’t based on any principles you claim to have.

By: TomK

TomK — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:17:57 +0000

My Wife who is a teacher in the Simi Valley School district just had an emergency meeting. They are 13 million short on their budget and need to make cuts problem is the budget is 96% personnel. They are saying the are trying to avoid having to go to the state for a loan because the state would then control the district until the loan is paid back. All this even after prop 30 passed.

By: RightCowLeftCoast

RightCowLeftCoast — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:06:13 +0000

For all the increases in labor costs within our multiple state and local level education systems, our students are not graduating at a significntly higher rate, with significantly great academic or technical skills, and our education system graduated thousands of people who are barely employable or who have undergrad degrees in fields that are not hiring. We to have millions of illegals working in fields that use to be seen as honest work and we have to grant visas to highly educated immigrants to meet the demands of our most high tech companies who haven’t yet been run out of the state due to our higher operating costs.
It’s not that we don’t believe in properly funding the education of the future members of the society, it’s just that the track record so far has been atrocious.