Monday, February 23, 2009
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In this article Steinhauer states some of the effects that may be created by these budget cuts. First of all the price on a lot of things we use everyday will rise, another thing is that school are going to be under-budget and more than likely lack the funds for new books and will have to increase class sizes, college students can expect their tuition to rise by about 9 % which is harsh to those of us who work to pay for our tuition and books. I can understand that in times like the ones we are faced with the government will increase taxes and what not to create a larger revinue, but to seriously cut the funds of the educational system seems to be a serious mistake. What bothers me more is not that we would pay more taxes but that we would be 42 billion in debt. I suppose we will just have to wait and see how all of this plays out, the article states that California is also one of the first states that are faced with these problems and that the rest of the states are soon to follow. We should as a state try to deal the with this the best we can. In the end the voters of California will call the shots and in the words of Steinhauer "it will be up to voters to keep the budget package from unraveling."
Article was retrieved from http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008764833_calbudg20.html ,and the image from http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/greenberg/archives/qqxsgChainsaw.jpg
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I agree with making cuts from schools should be one of our last resorts to save money and revenue for the state, including that their are other sources to make cuts before having the schools suffer. Such as having less employess in the state government and actually having the state legislature themselves take pay cuts serious pay cuts because the debt California is in clearly show they arn't doing their job.
ReplyDeleteIt is very harsh for the government to decide to cut the funds for education. Your opinion is much expressed by other faculties and our fellow students. It is good that you added in the percentage of how much the education funds will go up. This gives the readers a better understand to what you want to express and what they would feel when they are reading your comment. If you wanted to further your argument, you could have added in some infomation on our school and how it will effect not just the students but the faculty as well.
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