California is reaping its greedy fucking whirlwind, just like the entire American nation is. Old, racist, ignorant, and reactionary cooks living in perpetual cognitive dissonance, showering the world with speckles of their frothing hate via jackbooted underclass. Great. CIA controls the executive branch, coordinating with the oligarch military-industrial corporation, and not a damn Kenyan in the world can “reform” it.

May as well look forward to violently taking away that property, the idiots hardly know how to take care of it anyway. Or we can just wait for the superior Chinese peacekeepers to roll in a couple decades and take care of this generation on their own. That is, in the same ole imperialist style. God Bless America, refiner of imperialism, home of Dorritos.

Big fan of your writing. However, i dont get your point here. UC pensions/ retirees are robbing the youth. Pity. What is the alternative i ask? According to you, all of these UC employees should have taken care of their on post-retirement income, i.e. contributed to a retirement fund like some 401k… But wait, that would mean they would be all broke thanks to those fuckers form Wall st. we all adore. Any way you look at it bud, you are paying for your Grandpa’s diapers. Sorry.

It’s always seemed odd to me and maybe I’m being naive but if a university is a state institution, then shouldn’t it be free? Wouldn’t it make more sense for businesses that want well-educated employees to invest in these schools rather than forcing students to pay on an individual basis ensuring that a lot of gifted people are filtered out in the process?

Then again, I’m also inclined to agree with #21. Universities, if they’re not already, will be obsolete soon. Aside from hands on training which you don’t need 30k to acquire, the internet provides all the teaching material you need. The degree is really nothing more than a status symbol.

As for the budget, the solution seems obvious to me but then again, maybe I’m naive. Legalize all drugs (not just half ass’d medical pot) and anything else that goes on between consenting adults. Clear out the prisons and I have a feeling that red ink will clear out also.

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the key word is UNIONS. F’ the Unions weather they be auto workers unions, or teachers unions, or prison guard unions.

The pig ignorant hicks don’t want to loose their high paying job to stand around with a shotgun all day watching over non-violent offenders for 80K a year, whom would otherwise not be in prison because of decorian laws.

CA’s f’ed up state constitution and voter initiatives will make it impossible for change to happen. Thank god there are states that have a Republican form of govt. instead of CA f’ed up direct democracy rule. Direct democracy rule is ruinous.

“Proposition 13 and institute the sensible property tax systems which sensible states have”

CA has the highest tax rate of all states and raising taxes will solve the problems? The richest 3% of state taxpayers paid approximately 60% of all state taxes and they are already being taxed the sheyt out of. The rich are actually leaving the state in droves and sooner or later there will be less tax revenue in the future and watch the people on the bottom pay more in taxes. The state relies on capital gains tax, of which the Democrats in control want to raise, which will result in a final death blow to the West Coast Republic. Businesses, big and small alike, are leaving the state in droves into midwestern states because the CA govt. taxes the sheyt out of them into non-profitability and gives govt. money to subsidize water, build more prisons, and to pay for a sh8ty public school system that ranks 47/50 of all the nation, because the teachers union is powerful just like the prison guards union.

Build alternative schools to govt. run schools so the kids can learn better. Philanthropist were willing to put down money to build non-govt. run schools and voucher programs. Oh wait, teachers union defeated that so they can sit on their lazy asses all day and be a crappy teacher. Oh well…the only choice is govt. run schools

fuwggin govuhmint.

What the fuck are ya talkin’ about? Everyone in this fading republic knows that inmates in prison are far more valuable than teenagers at a university.

Just ask those union prison guards…

If the Californians want to make college affordable for their students again, let them repeal
Proposition 13 and institute the sensible property tax systems which sensible states have. Then
let the Californians repeal 3 Strikes and You’re Out and reduce the size and money-hunger of
their prison-industrial complex. Let them bust and decertify the Prison Guards Union if it objects to
having its lucrative revenue-streams thereby reduced. That would raise enough money to restore
funding to California’s Universities.