Some readers like Wilk's vote against endorsing Prop 30:
As for the waste, fraud and abuse line that Republicans are endlessly citing as the cause of all our fiscal woes, I call bullshit. Talk to any local school administrator and they'll tell you the fat has been cut away. In fact, they say these next round of cuts will go through to the bone. We're seeing that already at COC where students are self-funding classes.
The reader makes another error in his analysis. California's budget is a reflection of its residents' values, more so in this state than any other because of our heavily abused proposition system. He doesn't like HSR spending, yet the voters told the state they wanted that. I don't like how much money the state spends on prisons, yet the voters told the state to do that too when they passed the Three Strikes law.
We tie the hands of the Legislature then wonder why the car goes off the road.
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Wilk sells out COC, ctd
Wilk’s vote on support for Prop 30 was correct. Even the California School Board Association, while supporting Prop 30, admits that there is no money for schools in the proposition. Latest polls seem to show that it is failing. Governor Brown was just quoted as saying he will spend the rest of his time until the election trying to garnish support for this loser. California will probably benefit from having him away from his role as Governor.Another:
I don't know Wilk, and we may have different reasons for opposing 30. But here is mine, and it is shared by many Californians, according to polls.How hard is it for the general public to understand that money comes from different places and has strings attached to it? High Speed rail funding comes from two places: the bonds voters approved in 2008 and the federal government. It can't be sent to the schools, no matter how much we wish it could, so your argument is completely invalid. A State's budget, or a Federal Government's budget is not analogous to your household's budget, at all.
If we have the money to waste on a high speed rail line to nowhere and pensions undreamed of in the private sector, then we have enough money for schools. We are just spending it on the wrong things. Fix the spending, don't ask for more to mis-spend.
I agree we need to spend much more on education, but sending more money to those who are mis-spending it won't help, despite Brown's "strap the baby to the bumper" approach of putting schools first in line for the cuts. That is a choice by our so-called representatives, not a natural consequence of not passing 30.
When the waste stops, then I will vote for more money, but with a guarantee it goes to schools. 30 does not do this. Just more hens for the fox "guarding" them.
As for the waste, fraud and abuse line that Republicans are endlessly citing as the cause of all our fiscal woes, I call bullshit. Talk to any local school administrator and they'll tell you the fat has been cut away. In fact, they say these next round of cuts will go through to the bone. We're seeing that already at COC where students are self-funding classes.
The reader makes another error in his analysis. California's budget is a reflection of its residents' values, more so in this state than any other because of our heavily abused proposition system. He doesn't like HSR spending, yet the voters told the state they wanted that. I don't like how much money the state spends on prisons, yet the voters told the state to do that too when they passed the Three Strikes law.
We tie the hands of the Legislature then wonder why the car goes off the road.
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