I have seen this figure as low as 1 million short, but everyone agrees the state is screwed if we don’t solve the education crisis in the state because the economy will depend on having enough graduates Then again, *Paging India on line 1*, we’ll be fine.

http://californiacompetes.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/CaCompetes_Report_Final-2.pdf

Your mentality is typical of those clinging to the old and failed ways. Double down on what doesn’t work. Ignore the concrete reality and trends and just chalk up every structural problem to personal failure. To really acknowledge a broken system would be too much for you to consider so you’d rather blame the people suffering the consequences rather than pitch in to develop a new and effective way.

Stupid young people are underemployed and unemployed.

In the boom years, stupid people were taken care of in the economy. Socialism has killed those times and the future looks far worse.

The best thing one can do for stupid people is to teach them obediance to smart people – and how to make themselves useful so they will be kept around.

I don’t buy this demonization of liberalism in general as the source of problems. It has failed, clearly, to effectively confront the abuses of big business. But it is plastic-suit conservatives like Romney and Rick Perry that embrace neo-liberal economics, meaning no regulation, that allows big companies to extinguish small business. CA education decline can be traced directly to Proposition 13, a decision to regulate taxes out of tune with the actual reasonable appraised value of houses. Prop 13 was also championed by conservatives. Plutocrats on one side (neo-conservatives) and bureaucrats and technocrats on the other (neo-liberals) will only make the problem worse.

Both have a sense of entitlement at odds with reality. That is why I argue for community-based, small-business based economies and education. I am not a neo-liberal or a neo-conservative. I’d like to say I am a third old school conservative (personal responsibility, limited government, no entangling foreign wars, respect for wisdom of traditions), a third old-school liberal (concern for the “least among us,” advocate for equality and opportunity, social responsibility), and a third new-school progressive (grass-roots organizing, creative, practical responses to real problems, community-based solutions, etc.)

You take the best of traditions and you leave the worst. You promote the best character, ideas, and practices in people (ones that create productivity and help others) and you firmly defeat the worst (ones that exploit and abuse others). I frankly don’t care what political affiliation allows you to do it. Just do it. Offer something to make people whole or complain on the sideline.

Some of the possible solutions can be surprising. Here is an interview with me advocating for debt forgiveness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCARZPGliqU
I’m sure there are conservative, liberal, AND progressive good ideas. Let’s support them and let’s defeat the bad ideas.

They are both hard at work in Europe destabilizing them and it’s possible Europe will degenerate/collapse first.

People should understand – when the collapse comes (ie no police, no electrical power, no food distribution, closed & barricaded freeways, rape gangs in the streets, “Katrina-like” conditions – it will happen fast. Conditions will go from what passes for normal to that in a matter of weeks. Or so the argument goes.

It wouldn’t happen that way in a stronger society that was cohesive, such as US around the time of the Great Depression or Pearl Harbor. The liberal policies which combine anti-nationalism and Marxism pretty much guarantee it will be every animal for themselves.

Check out this Youtube Video from 1958 about Oakland and it’s economic viability:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_eHYfhSMQM

This is largely ruined now by liberal policy that destroyed local industry, produced rampant crime largely by welfare bred & publicly “educated” blacks (such as armed robberies at restaurants in Jack London Square and now Piedmont Ave), destroyed what was once one of the best secondary school systems in the country and drove productive populations out of town and out of state. The black feral underclass is in turn slated to be eaten by the coming Mexican replacements for them. This is already happening in Southern CA where black gang territory is being ethnicly cleansed (by bullets) by the Mexican Gangs. That process is steadily moving north.

And I agree the Republicians helped or let this happen. Perhaps the Tea Party as it grows and comes to greater power will reverse some of this decline. They are Nationalist and they are not liberal. More likely the US will partition into white retreat states and minority 3rd world states (such as CA) – whatever is going to occur, the pace of change is accelerating.

As far as the teacher not finding a job as a teacher – so what? You have to understand, schools are a luxury you find in a functioning industrial society. As we decline into a 3rd world cesspool, you are NOT going to have any kind of public school system you were used to from the 1960s. Do you see such schools in Mexico, Sub Sahara Africa, or wherever we are importing our replacement people from? Exactly why do you think the Nigerians and Ethiopians are here – on student visas that become green cards – for the good weather?

You cannot have a “school” in a 3rd world welfare state. County Hospitals either. Police and Fire services as we had them either. Say goodbye to the libraries soon also.

Which is why I think we need a lot less liberalism. Only my opinion. Whatever will be will be. We have a Governor who thinks an academic is a suitable Supreme Court appointee – so presumably this candidate can tell us how we have to live (you know liberals use the appellate courts as their private legislature). I once appeared before Rose Bird at the State Supreme Court. It’s interesting to look such a person in the eye. But then I have friends who interviewed Idi Amin and many other such worthies.

Maybe we both agree that conditions in CA are bad and should be put back to the way they once were.

That is not likely to happen. This infection is going to run it’s course.

Brave New World.

http://downbutnotoutletters.tumblr.com/archive

Here, for instance, is a former chemist living in Oregon who returned to get a masters in teaching, loves teaching students, and cannot get a job: http://downbutnotoutletters.tumblr.com/post/7534933522/i-am-active-in-my-community-something-i-would-do-even

This woman is highly educated, highly motivated, highly skilled, passionate, community-oriented and has NO JOB! I am not a liberal myself, finding both “left” and “right” are leading in the wrong direction. (I am a progressive, as in the direction “forward”) However, I love the way liberalism/socialism gets blamed for the situation we are in, when it is corporate outsourcing and downsizing and financial fraud that has been demonstrated to create this mess.

Could there be something about the People’s Republic of California that makes it no longer economically viable?

I’d suggest the unemployed migrate out of here fast – and get on the economic ladders in the less Socialist States. There is economic growth going on elsewhere – and while things aren’t perfect in the other states the lower classes clearly have better schools and better quality of life elsewhere, such as OR with no sales tax, etc..