Californians ought to be outraged that government-paid jobs, which is to say people on the public payroll who are paid with your tax money, take priority over helping the needy. But the needy don't elect many legislators.
California teachers, for example, are among the highest paid in the nation. By the way, how does the fruits of their labors look? Yeah, among the worst in the nation. And the governor intends to increase education spending by billions, while pleading poverty, of course.
So, why the obsession with increasing tax spending on the state's public schools when the state has so many poor people?
By the way, how many "poor" people does the state have? Well, if you mean by poor, those poor enough to get welfare paid for with your taxes, in that case California has plenty.
Almost a third of all welfare recipients in the nation reside in California. But California is a big state, with 37 million or so residents.
Oops, that makes California only about 12 percent of the U.S. population - but nearly a third of the U.S. welfare recipients.
How could such a thing happen? Perhaps because the same people who over pay for under-performing public schools (with your money) over pay in welfare benefits (with your money). Notice the common factors - over paying and your money.
As anyone bright enough to come in out of the rain can figure out, if California is giving away money, why live in Kansas?
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson wrote in letter to William Ludlow in 1824
Watching the Democrats who control the purse strings in Sacramento get agitated about snipping a little off their bloated spending for ineffective public schools and resisting rolling back California's welfare checks to a level comparable with other states' dole is like watching Greek tragedy in the making. And we mean a contemporary Greek tragedy. Even more reason Californians ought to be outraged.
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