Comments on: Hayward spares arts, culture, 211 programs

By: Sherry Blair

Sherry Blair — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:38:17 +0000

I believe that in place of expensive government programs, the government could facilitate establishing self-help neighborhood cooperatives that would allow for shared resources without dependency. That is essentially what a functional family is. When the government takes the attitude that the people are not capable of solving their own problems and experts must be hired it gets very expensive!

By: Kathi Booth

Kathi Booth — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:25:08 +0000

Unfortunately sometimes there is no family for either the elderly or the children. While I am not super religious, I do believe in the idea of “being our brother’s keepers”.

By: qodrn

qodrn — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:53:44 +0000

Cities and government have a tendancy to cut to a minimum level. Never less go beyond and then we could scale it back. So, they are always either in the hole or just making it.
Government needs to stop funding any more programs for life. I think it is great that our government funds as many things as it does. However, in the future these programs should only be a one time limited run that those using them would be aware of. I think this is better than going up an down like now. I think this would lessen the feeling that only some of us are only taking handouts and would put more emphasis on not relying on government.
There is a real question here about who is responsible for raising children and taking care of the elderly. Is it the government or is it the family?

By: Michael Moore

Michael Moore — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:18:45 +0000

Sherry, the link is fine and is well worth devoting 10.16 minutes to listening. The key note to me is that 4 states: Alaska, Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming are not in deficit. The other 46 are. The part that is disappointing is that the investment by the Federal government in these 4 states is huge and it is their energy reserves, active oil, liquid natural gas, coal reserves and active coal mining that drive their deficits. I am not sure why Gates left that off his message. The balance of it is very good and everyone should give it a listen.

By: Sherry Blair

Sherry Blair — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:01:24 +0000

I don’t know how I did that!!!

By: Sherry Blair

Sherry Blair — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:00:27 +0000

Here’s Bill Gate’s TED talk that might be of interest regarding the state budget:

http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_how_state_budgets_are_breaking_us_schools.html

By: Monica Ruiz

Monica Ruiz — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:13:26 +0000

Thanks for the 211 information. I didn’t even know this service existed.

By: qodrn

qodrn — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:22:35 +0000

Well, the cafeteria attacking senior class from Leadership High graduated tonight at the Cal State amphitheater. After all the hype, most kids went to the prom, went to Disneyland and the ceremony was not reduced in scope. Other punishments were merited out, however. Good luck, clas of ’11. (They may really need it). Yay, jeffy.