Noted, yes, but

Post #390,730 by rcareaga 6/12/14 6:33:09 PM Reply	Noted, yes, but Not clear as to whether irony or a smirk was intended. Brown's first two terms were not bad at all, particularly measured against the governership of the Blessed Saint Alzheimer. cordially,
Post #390,734 by a6l6e6x 6/12/14 7:32:11 PM Reply	Well, Prop 13 comes to mind. That sure cut into spending on schools and used up the state's surplus. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #390,735 by rcareaga 6/12/14 7:57:12 PM Reply	Re: Well, Prop 13 comes to mind. Not exactly a Brown initiative, though he certainly acquiesced to the fait accompli. Do you remember what the Prop 13's proponents held forth as their main argument? California was running a budget surplus under Brown. No one wants to talk about that now. cordially,
Post #390,759 by Ashton 6/13/14 4:44:01 PM Reply	Wiki-P gives a decent synopsis of Gann/Jarvis' motives and.. barely limns the Loss to CA brainpower subsequently. While I benefited from the thing, (especially its timing: a few years before peddling my manse in Kensington) I can't claim prescience of just How-horrible would be the fall-out of this putative subsidy for old-folks-staying in-house in perpetuum. (And I Should have grokked that immediately; all ye need know is Alex's/Asimov Sig.)
Post #390,744 by mmoffitt 6/13/14 9:09:29 AM Reply	I remember my dad accurately predicting Prop 13 would destroy CA schools. I graduated from high school out there in 1977, so that was my first year of college, which was tuition free at the time. If you bought a parking permit and library card (not required) at Long Beach City College, you paid a whopping $12.00 to take up to 18 credits (without those, the 18 credits were absolutely FREE). Dad was teaching at Millikan High School in Long Beach at the time. Some things that disappeared were California's high schools ranking among the best in the nation. I took Semantics, Linguistics, American Short Story, American Novel, European Short Story, and European Novel in high school. Not a damned chance of that now. But, hey, everybody gets to keep "their money" so it's all good.

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