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.