We’re Still Here, Still Golden (Liberal USC Professor Pans California Doomsayers)

City Watch ^ | 05/14/2012 | DOWELL MYERS

[re_nortex]

It is about the defunding of higher education and the failure to invest in the next generation of workers, taxpayers, and homebuyers.

In other words, soak the producers and "spread the wealth around" to the looters. Sure, that's just the ticket to restore California.

And to think that USC used to be a rather Conservative university, where genuine learning existed. That's receding into a very dim, long ago past.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The main threat in California isn’t about business climate or the types of homes being built. It is about the defunding of higher education...

Awww, isn't that cute?

The Perfesser wants a raise.

[Tzimisce]

The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one.

[Tenacious 1]

The doomsayer critics playing with demographics typically cite three reasons for the state’s woes: Business taxes are too high, development regulations are too strict, and planners are dictating lifestyles that people don’t want.

Yep.

Meanwhile, the people of California wonder if some of these claims are true.

Only the ones that are still there and haven't started planning their egress yet.

This professor is trying to convince citizens of rainy weather on a sunny day while pissing on their leg. I'm waiting for some of the establishment politicians in CA start blaming talk radio for the bad press and mass exodus. Oh wait....

He doesn't see ANY correlation between the numbers of people and business going away and the states fiscal and regulatory policies? None? Really? He's a professor of what again?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one.

He admits that there is one, only, he’s identified the WRONG PROBLEM.

[Iron Munro]

The “makers” are bailing out.

The establishment “takers” have dug themselves in and have a death grip on the state treasury.

Meanwhile the population continues to climb as non-english speaking moochers still pour across the border and spawn anchor babies by the thousands.

No one has the guts to do what needs to be done.

California will end up becoming a federal government basket case and receive a multi-trillion dollar bailout. That will enable them to continue the insanity for a few more years.

[freedumb2003]

I left late last year — and I was born and raised in California.

This is the worst (best?) job of whistling past the graveyard I have ever read. It isn’t even backed up by facts (most people are fleeing to Texas, not Nevada).

There are more people in the cart than pulling it. The more they raise taxes the fewer people will be pulling the cart (plenty of people to clamber in to get the free stuff, though).

[ReformationFan]

Indeed. As Shaw so aptly put it: “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

He's a professor of what again?

He's the Jerry Brown Professor of Moonbattery at USC. Not that they call it that.

[ibytoohi]

Please excuse me for having the audacity to ask a simple question since I am not a member of the enlightened academic intelligentsia but,

WHERE IS THE MONEY TO SUSTAIN IT GOING TO COME FROM, YOU IDIOT?"

[Old North State]

And there is no political gridlock in California, the democrats own the State at all levels.

[vikingd00d]

>>This giant state has an economy that is equivalent in production to the eighth-largest nation in the world.

True, but before the Rats took control, California had an economy that was equivalent to the fifth-largest nation in the world.

[anoldafvet]

Folks, this is your brain on drugs.

[ibytoohi]

I believe that I have an answer to my own question.

For the good of the people (how can you resist) cut the salaries of all tenured professors, and administrators throughout the California state university system by 50%.

I see two immediate results. First, although still over paid those who sacrificed the 50% salary cut are now paid an amount closer to their actual value to the economy, and secondly, the state now has the money to begin reducing the deficit and making the state solvent.

Oops, my bad. We're talking California here. Any additional revenues will certainly be spent, not on deficit reduction, but on programs, grants etc such as "DNA and odorous investigation of Sasquatch feces in Yosemite."

[BookmanTheJanitor]

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[lowbridge]

Bump

[Trod Upon]

Golden? More like jaundiced. CA has just about made its last lap around the bowl.

[EyeGuy]

Says the woefully ignorant academic from his EASY, ridiculously undemanding position, atop his protected satin pillow, deep inside taxpayer-funded, Communist BigEducation.

[vette6387]

“He’s the Jerry Brown Professor of Moonbattery at USC. Not that they call it that. “

He makes the case for shuttering “higher education” for a period of five years, sending all the “professors” down the road to look for a real job, and starting the complete rebuilding of our educational infrastructure. Those who would be “missing out” on the current claptrap “colleges and universities,” would be better off for their “loss.”