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Francesca9 Donating Member (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 12:08 AM
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State (California) defers schools, welfare program payments
Source: San Francisco Chronicle

State leaders on Monday used a recently passed law to delay payment of nearly $3 billion in funds to K-12 public education and a welfare program, a decision that officials acknowledged will exacerbate difficulties for school districts and counties that already have had to lay off workers.

The move transfers part of the state's money shortage crisis to counties, school districts and local officials, who will be left to decide how to bridge the gap to continue providing services to the public.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/23/BAV21F26BV.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1



and the descent of my state continues .. when a state cannot afford schools it is not a government.
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annm4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 12:15 AM
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1. Shameful,
they should restore taxes on the corporations.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 12:48 AM
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4. It's so obvious, isn't it? n/t
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 12:18 AM
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2. You damn right "when a state cannot afford schools it is not a government"
Maybe the state should've given the kids an extra vacation for every day without a budget. How can the state expect its children to attend school regularly when the state can't manage its money correctly?

This'd be the scene I'd imagine with the "extended vacation" for the children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 12:44 AM
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3. Great link!
Too bad we can't apply the word "great' to anything about California's governance, though...

Great fiasco?

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Newest Reality Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 12:51 AM
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5. The collapse
continues and the boondoggles fail, one by one as they are destined to do by those who pathologically control the systems and bring them to their doom.

Yet, hope and trust abound like guarantees of satisfaction or your Faith Based Tickets back. Hope, placed somewhere in the future, can be robbing what is actually in abundance in the here and now.

Things will certainly get worse despite the final, diaphanous bubbles waiting to pop for those who, by denial, await a promised recovery as it if were a most holy, political blessing for the chosen ones who cling to their faith. And yet, the end is neigh and its promise of new tomorrows has yet to be divined for the faithful want more of the same and can't, and will never, be able to afford the unsustainable infomercial of the Owners. No new order will emerge from clinging, no matter what the Masters of the Simulation distract you with now.

One wonders, in the midst of the Newest Cruelty, just how far you could go here with mere words before you have ventured beyond the acceptable social norms, (of a purely consensus reality imagined to be concrete and so serious) and ordinary infighting before a word or phrase would manage to indelibly unsettle this chaotic, turbulent miasma of peace and order of the masses and set a real spark to the fuse of anarchy that sits their next to the powder-keg of unspeakable tolerance for what promotes a way of life that is out of balance with the rest of the Universe and nature as it is.

Oh, poor little you! You were created by this culture to fulfill its needs and now, there you are, for it or against it and wondering just what to do as it enters its inevitable self-destruction mode and leaves you to deal with the result. Fly away! Cling to whatever you have left! Go for you old, abandoned beliefs. Lose it! Head for the hills. Do away with yourself and those you love. Drink too much or lose yourself in any chemical fix if you can while the fixin' is good. Take the copious pharmaceuticals they throw at you and ignore the ramifications. Worry often about what to do. Wonder why there is this undercurrent that you and everyone you know will admit to feeling but can't quite explain or understand fully. Take your confusion out on yourself or someone else, but don't do a damn thing to that which has called you to this place, here and now. Eat popcorn and watch the debacle unfold. Believe that those who brought you here will fix it soon. Got that?

What might fix this for you personally, (and thereby add your result to that of many potentials) is what you have been trained to never consider as a potential resolve under any circumstances whatsoever. You would call it unreasonable, unattractive, unimportant, blasphemous, anarchistic, unproductive, counter-intuitive, irrational, insane, ridiculous, Satanic, diabolical, etc., etc.

There are at least 10,000 things calling to you and assuring that nothing more than a for or against will come. There is a failing system in place that will beckon most wantonly like the Sirens of Titan to get you to participate in a way that is normal, expected and accepted, no matter what side of the systemic spectrum you take, pro or con. That's the nature of the game when you see it. Any system of this nature will have a plethora of ways and means to keep you so completely involved in its machinations via manipulations that you have, (as a created individual) very little potential to escape or transcend its methodology. One would hope that, for many, this would make perfect sense and spark some very deep and immediate creative thinking right away. It is so simple that it seems unattainable in light of the complexity that abounds.

It would not be prudent to continue any farther than that if the idea of being credulous is considered at all important in light of the prevalent cultural norms that are defining the nature and content of what is or is not considered acceptable. Those norms are taken for granted even when norms are fully understood to be abstractions based on statistical and cultural necessity based on nothing more than a pragmatic consensus often mistaken, (knowingly or unknowingly) for concrete fact, of which there are very, very few, if any. It's a human thing.

The challenge is yours. It is one of intelligence and bravery. It is filled with questions created by their answers. It is resolved in the most simple and obvious no matter how intelligent or willfully ignorant you may be or think yourself to be.

This is really it.

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comtec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 04:38 AM
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6. what exactly
is your fucking point in 3 sentences or less?
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PJPhreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 04:52 AM
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8. ^^^Newest Reality...Dude,Thats some Heavy Writing^^^
Edited on Tue Aug-24-10 04:58 AM by PJPhreak
Nt
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Le Taz Hot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 07:42 AM
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9. Is it me
or is this sounding a little "LaRouchie," i.e., 10,000 words with no point. :shrug:
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Throd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 12:36 PM
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16. So many words, so little clarity.
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Downwinder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 04:41 AM
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7. Your state used to have the best schools in the country. n/t
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Lance_Boyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 08:59 AM
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11. CA just spent half a BILLION dollars on one obscenity of a school building.
It's the all-style-no-substance state.

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prismpalette Donating Member (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 08:33 AM
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10. hmmmm
California continues its slash and burn method of budget control. Have the legislators slashed and burned their paychecks and benefits? If not, why haven't Califorians demanded they too share the pain?
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SomeGuyInEagan Donating Member (872 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 09:42 AM
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12. Minnesota (under Pawlenty) has done this as well ...
... it is one his "fiscal responsibility" tricks, along with cutting social programs, spending the tobacco settlement money to balance the budget and increasing "fees" (not taxes, good Lord, no, Tim "Aw Shucks, I'm just a fella from South St. Paul" Pawlenty would never raise "taxes" ... "fees" however, can be raised and created and raised) and shifting expenses to communities.

Our public k-12 schools have dropped from the top five by many measures 15 and 20 years ago to the middle-of-the-pack today.
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 11:05 AM
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13. What you guys need to do is throw out all Democrats and put Republicans in Charge
D'Oh.....
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kiranon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 11:26 AM
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14. Keep legislature in session day and night without air conditioning until
they agree on the budget. The schools should close until they receive funding. The 2/3rds rule to pass a budget calls for pressure from the electorate in order to get the budget passed.
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-10 11:29 AM
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15. This trend has been cropping up the last few months - gov takes from the poor.
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