We are all having to cut back, with the exception of the Obama’s. Many states are facing unbelievable deficits and have to lay off hundreds of state employees just to make ends meet. California is one of those states. Due to poor check-balancing skills and basic don’t-spend-what-you-don’t-have common sense, the state is at the point where it is forced to write vendors IOU’s. So, where do they get the money to buy a $578 million school? Too bad they won’t have any teachers to actually teach students. The state has
had to lay off nearly 3000 teachers in the past year. It is obvious where the school district officials’ and the state government’s ambitions lie, and it isn’t providing an education. It brings me back to old Roman times when the dictators would build as many buildings as they could during their reign to show how great they are. I can hear the governor now, “Ya, come see owa new $578 million school, ya! Never mind that we didn’t have the money to hira new teachas. Who needs teachas anyhow? Ya!” I think California, like the rest of the nation, needs to get its priorities in check and its checkbook balanced. I wonder if I can send an IOU to my electrical company. Hey, if a state can do it, why can’t I?
Building unaffordable monuments to yourself AT PUBLIC EXPENSE is not limited to California. We have in Wilmington our own convention center as a prime example.
It’s very simple , you can get hidden graft much easier for a building or a property improvement “ENTERPRISE” than any other way.
Verbal promises disappear like smoke but property and buildings are reminders for support in the next election cycle.