California State Budget Pandering on the CSU System

The state budget pandering is quickly reaching incredible heights, from my personal "No" vote of all six of the recent props is going to kill somebody to the hand wringing over the states higher educations system raising fees while cutting student aid, you might have the impression that there is nothing left to cut and that the budgetary sky is falling.

It’s not, and just sitting here you can pretty well see that it is not.

From a purely philosophical standpoint we can ask the question, what is the state Government supposed to be doing versus what we want it to do, and then argue from there.

For my own part, I have always believed that if you want or need a college education, then pay for one. Stop expecting the tax payers to fund it in any way shape or form. Thousands of Americans have done this, and now we are supposed to believe that here in California people today are too stupid to figure out how to go to school and pay for it? Truth is that they probably aren’t going to benefit much from a college education. Moreover, if you are looking for the real educational value of college, consider that while raising your fees, the administrative salaries aren’t getting cut or getting any smaller. So the true educational lesson in economics is a lesson you could have gotten for free from P.T. Barnum.

K-12, fine, but nowhere is there any right to a college education, and anybody dumb enough to not see the waste and largess in the California higher education system probably isn’t going to benefit from the education provided anyway.

Except to tell me how they support it because without it the sky will fall….