Norbert Haupt

The governor announced additional cuts to education in California.

“The state cannot give what it does not have,” Brown said after expressing the  same sentiment in Latin. “And there’s been a lot of obfuscation and gimmickry,  and I’ve reduced that to a minimum, if I do say so. I don’t want to rely on  pushing the problem further down the road.”

I appreciate fiscal responsibility. I question what rationale has us cutting education of our children, while maintaining bloated pensions and a terribly expensive corrections system.

You can judge a society’s values based on the priorities it sets:

Prisoners, prison guards, children.