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School Children Rejoice: California Is So Broke It Will Shorten The School Year
This is just getting ridiculous:
- CALIFORNIA REVENUE MAY TRAIL FORECAST BY $3.7 BLN, ANALYST SAYS
- CALIFORNIA REVENUE SHORTFALL MAY MEAN SHORTER SCHOOL YEAR
Who needs to go to school anyway: all we need to know we learn from The Situation and Pauly-D. But yes, M-Dub is off by a month or two on the upcoming tsunami default wave: pesudo-sophist muni experts rejoice! Also rejoice because this news is somehow bullish - probably the EFSF will be expanded to include California, or the FT will break a story at 3 pm that China is about to buy CA, sending the S&P to Uranus.
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I think your dad's long term memory is still intact. He remembers this:
California Picture Book 1941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPsz53bw5_g&feature=player_embedded
What a place is was.
so was ahhhnold, the humvee collector - kali folk must like their rulers "arrogant."
They always say lack of revenue, never a problem of costs. Not true.
CalPERS unfunded liabilities:
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/chart-graph/calstrs-and-calpe...
Want a pension over 100K, work for govt' in Cali:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/135117-want-a-pension-over-100-000-be-a-...
California firefighter salary debate:
http://honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2611207
Oh crap. I have to drive by the LA unified school district main office on my way to/from work. This is just going to mean more protests, more police, more news vans, and jammed up traffic for me.
Interestingly, I did notice a few weeks ago that the teachers who were participating in the "Occupy LAUSD" did not actually camp outside the building, even though they left tents there overnight and over the weekend. Compared to the Occupy LA people, these teachers are pretty weak in their convictions. And they left their signs up and garbage about after they packed up, which I found distrubing.
"Is our children learning???"
Is our childrens learning?
fixed it for ya, lol.
;)
Our public schools aren't educating anyone anyway. Maybe (in California) they could keep public schools open that last month just so the mass of illegal’s could learn English. Just a thought.....
I once had a conversation with a Texas State Senator over the (then) debate over school funding. She mentioned a, "Crisis in education funding." My reply was that we didn't have a 'crisis in funding', we had a 'crisis in priorities.’ How in the world is it that stuff like education funding is always the LAST dollar allocated instead of the FIRST??? In Texas we have Special Sessions just to figure out education funding, as if they couldn’t have figured that one out in a regular session. Why aren't Special Sessions over stuff like entitlements?
Because the voters can always be suckered into paying more "for the children". So your corrupt politicians will always fund everything else they want first. It's a form of blackmail.
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the class room
Teachers leave those kids alone
Hey, teachers! Leave those kids alone!
california should do what banks do ... create good california and bad california ...
Libertarians REJOICE! the "free market" is allowing your children the freedom to be stupid.
now that they are FREE to do whatever they want, your 6 year old can get a job ...or.......they can turn to crime.
LIBERTY!!!!! yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Shutting down the socialist child concentration camps isn't enough.
The State should return the funds it extorted to the proper owners.
What free market? We haven't had a free market EVER, just less controlled. Remember free market = black market.
Oh noes!!!11!!1!!
parents might have to parent again and teach children that stealing is wrong
School?
Do you need an Edumacation to buy in iPad or go to Starbucks for a Latte?
Consumers is all we need, oh, and some more stimulus and bailouts and QE, with a dollop in increased food stamps and welfare.
If there are riots we institute the draft for males, just think of all the hot babes that will be available.
We can consume our way out of this recession, we just need a little more time, and money printing, and positive thinking, and 101 more cable channels, and a couple more professional sports and leagues.
Right?
That's pretty fuckup. I need my tax dollar to go to school, and I need the teachers to be around the children for MORE DAY, NOT LESS. They need to get rid of all these minimum wage shit. In the hard time like this, we need the teachers more than ever. They should work more for less. That's what sacrifice means.
damn, some dude already beat me to uranus
You a Penn State grad?
A shorter school day translates into higher childcare cost...I mean seriously...What is public school good for except really cheap daycare!!!
Couple this with the 'Nothing to do after school' except get into trouble thesis...
Get ready and go long the 12 year old "Goin back to Cali' Thugs and Criminals...
Third World R US!
Public schools are a disaster, here's just one example:
Nearly Half Of Detroit's Adults Are Functionally Illiterate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/detroit-illiteracy-nearly-half-education_n_858307.html
See also
http://mises.org/etexts/enterprisingedu.pdf
"Despite virtually omnipresent dogma, there is no simple explanation as to why government provision of primary education must be substituted for private alternatives."
All the kids of the next gernerations need to know,is what the head of the Federal(not) Reserves(none) tells them.
Ps.
Fuck You Ben BerSkanky.
From Wikipedia:
This List of State of California agencies, departments, and commissions is a partial list of the more than 500 California state government agencies, departments, and commissions.
If I'm Gov I'm cutting three of these DAY ONE: State Bar of California, Department of Education,........ I can't remember the third one. Sorry.
Oops.
Hey,i GOT SOME "PRE DEFAULTED" CMBS I could sell them on the cheap.
They could flip them over for Maxi Profit and put the returns back into the school system,so they could educate the kiddies never to believe a Bankster when he says he has this incredible finacial tool ,or these "investment vehicles".
Better still,they could maybe learn to never believe a Bankster no matter what he says......
Look his lips are moving...I know what that means.
Just give 'em Bibles and they can home-school themselves...
Assuming of course they can read....
I am sure as stuff unwinds people will be "very" surprised that there is almost no money to do anything. Your taxes will remain the same or go higher but you will receive less and less in benefits because of the well known "money sinks" that take more and more of the revenues. How do states think they can just keep selling bonds based on expected tax revenue going decades forward and not expect it to blow up in their face when there is no money to pay for things in the future.
That would be like you and I taking 10 years worth of salary today so that we can buy a house for cash now. All of our money in future years goes to pay back the loan. We neglected to remember that a house needs upkeep and we have to eat .... hmm oh well looks like we are in a bit of trouble.
Schools - year cut in half, many closed.
Roads - no work done, no money
Police - half gone, no money
Fire dept - half gone no money.
Riots are close at hand when we get to this point
In June CA leg. passed a law to eliminate redevelopment agencies and take (indirectly) what money they could -- a second law said redevelopment could stay in business if they volunarily each paid an amount based on a statewide share of $1.7 bln. This has been litgated and now is with the Ca Supreme Court. If both laws are overturned there will be another $1bln plus hole in the state budget. Not sure if the analyst took that into account.
good for children, one month of creative growth
Looks like we have a comedian Tyler now.
Tyler has always been a comedian, and a master of rethorical sarcasm!
I heard a report somewhere about US inter-state migration. It was interesting because the report was about a group of researchers that followed how US citizens are moving within the 50 states. The largest migration was from California to Florida (if my memory serves me correct ... may have been a different destination state). The beauty of the US system is that when a state is conducting business badly and elections aren't solving the problem, our citizens are free to move to another state of their liking and effectively vote with their feet. This will continue to happen with California until the problems are corrected. Same goes for other states which conduct their business poorly.
our citizens are free to move to another state of their liking and effectively vote with their feet.
The only problem with that is when you have immigrants from other states moving into your state and then bitching about lack of services and then continuing to vote like idiot socialists effectively importing their shithole into your state.
Maybe 10% of escapees from liberal hellholes realize that it was their voting patterns that contributed to the problem.
Well put ... and touche, my good sir.
I see alot of this, there is a strong tendency for northern jagoffs moving south to then do everything they can to turn it into the same sewer they left.
my suspiscion is simply latino illegals. if you own a home, have a job, had a job, family, hope to have another job, would you move?
think about it.
affirmative action president. lovely.
Our ISD has one elementary school, one Middle school, and a High School. There is a total of 1100 kids in the system. They have seven full-time coaches and one half-time librarian at the high school. They have no foreign language instruction. Last year the state rating agency downgraded them from average to below average, and the PTA was outraged. "We're not below average, dammit - we're average!" Mediocre and [proud of it.
The superintendant makes $300,000+. At the last school board meeting I asked if anyone in the administration could tell me how many graduates of the district go to college, and how many of those complete four years of college in six years or less. Nobody had a clue.
But my property tax bill comes right on time, every year. I'm lucky - I'm over 65 and my property taxes are 'frozen'. So I only have to pay $6000 a year to support this sterling example of American public education.
I've wondered for a while how long it is going to take for some recently graduated student to file a class action lawsuit against their public school system on the basis of fraud and conspiracy to defraud. These kids are not getting an education - they are getting conned, along with their parents, and all the rest of us who have no kids in the system but have to pay taxes, or else.
I would be absolutely ecstatic to see the entire public school system in the US shut down and forgotten. It once served a purpose, and once actually educated children, but those days, like the days of unions, are long gone.
sorry - double post
we have a $528 million dollar high school in LA.
that shit costs money. dudes.
and i'd like to think myself a liberal - but why is that?
because then they might have to pay say $10/hour for legal wages as home help versus $5.
i'm making the number up, i really don't know - but if illegals are 1 cent cheaper, then the rich will pay for that to 'save'
Will this affect the high school football season? Sure hope not, playoffs are coming up.
S&P 1800!
BTFD.
i wish i could short the schools.
California needs to go bust financially. There is so much lard in the budgets, like the unions, pensions, helping illegal wetbacks stay in the country, etc... Let it crash, get rid of the liberals, wetbacks and jooz that run the place and put some conservatives in the damn government.
Gov. Moonbeam isn't fit to run for dog catcher! CA needs to feel what starvation feels like before it will get better!