Disappointed with the state of the CA ballot propositions this time around. Yeah we got Jerry Brown and kept Barbara Boxer and may even have snuck in Kamala Harris, but we've seriously eff'ed our legislature's ability to do anything but steal from education. We couldn't even cough up a piddly $18 per year/vehicle to save our state parks in perpetuity. The Giants' winning the World Series doesn't make up for our having rejected all sources of state income even if we did give Democrats the ability to pass a budget with a simple majority. Their hands were tied before and now my fellow voters have tied them tighter. All of this distrust and disgust with the concept of sharing and cooperation is... well, it's a huge bummer. We say we want to save education (which will bring us jobs down the line) but why must we kill anything that would actually help fund schools? Do we not care? Do we not understand the implications of the way we vote? Are corporate interests really just spoon-feeding us big business propaganda? Are things actually going to be better this way? I don't know. I just want us to take an interest and do something about it. Ok, and I want to fund education. That's really what I want. In the end, everything comes down to that.
...And now I need to get back to grad school apps.
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Dude, I was so happy at the thought of giving $18 for my car to help state parks. Maybe we should start some kind of fundraiser for the parks that everyone who voted in accordance with the prop could donate to. I also am sad that the "billions of dollars in revenue" from legalizing pot is no longer an option. My battle cry on Tuesday was "SAVE CALIFORNIA! SAVE CALIFORNIA! BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN REVENUE FROM AN INDUSTRY THAT ALREADY EXISTS!" But I guess that 54% of Californians just aren't into gobs and gobs of money that will help improve all of our lives...
Education doesn't need more money, it needs some sanity. There is no benefit to trying to push all our students through the eye of an academic needle. What if everyone WERE qualified to attend college? Most could not afford it, and there are a limited number of jobs that require a higher education. It has nothing to do with relative intelligence, either. Some people prefer to build things and fix things and take care of people.
Textbooks are another big waste of money, California dollars sent to large printing companies in the midwest. The books are 80% colored pictures and 20% content.
I think kids should be a top priority, but not that we should use them as consumers of products and services that are irrelevant.
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