Golden state really just brass

 

 

 

 Ok, so the years are a bit off - 3 years actually, but in data from the Census Bureau, California ranks number 1 among 50 states for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed 9th grade, and 50th for the percentage who have never completed high school.

 

Yet, these same people drive and vote - they protest, march, and work at businesses ... they live in that state and consume the resources ... 

They also spend close to $10,000 per student in California ... or rather taxpayers pay nearly $10k per school child per year ... 

Are they getting their $$s worth?

Oh  - quick reaction ... you point out how some other state pay more for education ..... and ?? The dynamics of that state, the demographics of that state are not the same!  They pay $10,000.00 per child and have the least educated state.  A Golden State ... no.  A very tarnished state with more homeless (150,000) than some small cities.  And the answer is throw more money at it ...  funny because the number of taxpayers who have left the state is slightly higher than the number of homeless in California.

It is not sustainable.

I believe we are over $578 billion in debt in California and that is the simple and easy debt .... the more difficult debt is the $1.6 trillion unfunded liabilities debt.  Over $2 trillion debt, and they have less than high school grads working in the state and paying taxes (which for people in the lowest economic strata, those many people get most of the state taxes back at the end of the year) or not, while the wealthiest are leaving the state, and the middle class are leaving ... so who is going to pay?  It isn't all the people on state aid ... 

Maybe it's the sun, maybe it's the sand, maybe it's the air ... I dunno, I don't care, I just gotta be there .... California, sun and sand, I got the fever for you.

There is medicine for that fever.