It’s never enough for the (union) piggies at the trough.
Yes, our dear Taxifornia. The idiot liberal legislature continues to drive out businesses and individuals who pay taxes, then they raise the taxes more to compensate, further driving out more revenue sources.
If every liberal left the Taxifornia government, it would be a beautiful day. We could get back to the conservative, CONTROLLED government of the seventies where Taxifornia shined as an example of fiscal, educational, and demographic excellence.
I wonder if Ah-nold and his buddies in the legislature ever thought about running the illegals out of Taxifornia? That would net them about (latest estimate)$15 BILLION per year of revenue they are feeding to criminals and Mexico. Yet they fume over $40 BILLION in debt which could be paid down in several years.
Malfeasance, incompetence, selfishness, and greed — and the moron liberal voters keep putting them back in.
From the article:
They'll be needing to get in touch with Barack Hussein's Obama's handlers for lessons in how to disguise incompetence, corruption and thievery.
My education started in the 50’s without computers, calculators or any other modern high tech gadgetry. I got my first slide-rule in the 60’s. I’ll bet my education stacks up better than the modern fare at a fraction of the inflation adjusted costs of today.
This is insanity and economic suicide, not to mention legalized robbery.
1. L.A. residents are West Coast liberals
2. The school system has only to say "it's for the children" and the locals get misty-eyed as they reach for their wallets
3. Liberals will hear any logic or reason as screeching
from right-wing extremist ideologues, and
4. Even if the Liberals vote against the measure, ACORN will ensure that it passes.
Pay for performance????? One of the few industries where performance means nothing. In Los Angeles, it is said that about 30% graduate from High School. Great performance record!
I was in Florida (gulf side) last week and picked up a local (Lee County) newspaper. The front page article discussed the $30/$40 million reduction the regional schools would receive because of reduced property values and resulting tax.
What impressed me . . . really impressed me . . . the head of the school was looking for ways to cut expenses and find efficiencies. No pleading for more money or proposals to raise the tax base. After living in CA for 10 years, reading Florida’s perspective was refreshing.
I am convinced this is the mark of a succesful public school administrator:
1.Created red tape or rules are so rigid that the classrom is disfunctional
2. Received promotion
3. Created red tape for teachers that took time and resources away from the school
4. Received promotion
5. Participates in the red tape game by earning a Ph.D. in Education or an Ed.D.
6. Now with degree in hand requires a higher salary or promotion
7. Creates more red tape and supports the state’s latest certification requirements that require the average teacher to earn approximately 60 college credit hours beyond the bachelor’s.
8. Begs for money to pay these people since they now invested so much in eduction. Realizes that the red tape created now requires more administrators to navigate.
10. Hires more administrators and cries that there isn’t enough money for textbooks or heating/air conditioning the schools.
This is from a recent study/report Immigrants ravage U.S. infrastructure
Financial analyst: $1.6 trillion required to repair devastation by researcher Edwin S. Rubenstein
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/docs/tsc_twin_crises_rubenstein_2009jan12.pdf
Just one section:
Public schools
Immigrants make up 21 percent of the school-age population in the U.S.
“In California, a whopping 47 percent of the school-age population consists of immigrants or the children of immigrants,” the report states. “Some Los Angeles schools are so crowded that they have lengthened the time between classes to give students time to make their way through crowded halls. Los Angeles’ school construction program is so massive that the Army Corps of Engineers was called in to manage it.”
According to the U.S. Department of Education, 18 percent of all schools are considered overcrowded, and 37 percent use trailers and portable structures to accommodate growing student bodies. Public facilities are an average of 40 years old. Cities with high populations of illegal aliens are spending large amounts of their budgets on constructing new schools.
“Our anticipated gains in the number of foreign-born students alone will require us to build one elementary school a month to keep up,” Miami-Dade, Fla., school Superintendent Roger Cuevas said.
It took a little longer than expected, but finally left has started cashing in on Proposition 39, passed Nov 7, 2000.
Recall the palliatives the democrats passed out for prop’s passage: That the money would be used ONLY for schools, there would be STRICT accountability, regular audits, and, of course, severe consequences for any abuse.
Yeah, but that was the campaign. Then we voted.
Nice going, California. Your just desserts are now being served. You have it coming to you.
Great, so they can buy more historic buildings and tear them down, like the Ambassador Hotel.
there is no low, too low. literally.