Gosh, if only there were a quick an easy way to simultaneously raise revenues and cut law enforcement and prison costs, with the additional benefit of protecting children and creating new jobs. I’ll sit here and try to think of that solution; in the meantime, check out this story from the New York Times:
COCOA, Fla. — A year ago, the Brevard County Schools ran a robust summer program here, with dozens of schools bustling with teachers and some 14,000 children practicing multiplication, reading Harry Potter and studying Spanish verbs, all at no cost to parents.
But this year Florida’s budget crisis has gutted summer school. Brevard classrooms are shuttered, and students like 11-year-old Uvenka Jean-Baptiste, whose mother works in a nursing home, are spending their summer days at home, surfing television channels or loitering at a mall.
Nearly every school system in Florida has eviscerated or eliminated summer school this year, and officials are reporting sweeping cuts in states from North Carolina and Delaware to California and Washington. The cuts have come as states across the country are struggling to approve budgets, and California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, declared a fiscal state of emergency on Wednesday.
In Florida and California, for example, government revenues have fallen so precipitously that, even after receiving federal stimulus dollars, local officials have been forced to make deep cuts to school budgets. Officials in many other states, considering summer school a frill, despite research showing it can narrow the achievement gap between poor and affluent children, have spent their stimulus money elsewhere.
In Los Angeles, where school officials are still working to remove hundreds of millions of dollars from a $5.5 billion annual budget, they cut $34 million last month by canceling summer school for all elementary and middle school children except the disabled. That left 150,000 students without summer classes, and parents scrambling for child care.
Dang, I had just about almost figured out how we could raise state tax revenues and eliminate wasteful government spending with just one small policy change, but then I was distracted by a phone call from my weed-dealing friend who just bought a new Jet-Ski and the red police D.A.R.E. Corvette driving down the street.
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That wouldnt be feesable, we have to protect the kids, wait, did that say they arent getting their school, looks like the best interests of the kids after all. Or scratch everything I said and do a big Homer DOHHHH! lolz
This is so much more than a marijuana fight, its class warfare and has been from day one. The “Man”(the top 5%) wants us to lose our homes, have broken families, be banished from our comunitees and to be in finacial ruin. They need us in prison and in the system. They keep us down, poor and fearing the system, by making us criminals.
This isnt about drugs or if they are bad, the facts are out for all to see, its about keeping a group of citizens down, a group that does not wish to comform to their way of thinking or lifestyle. Like I alway write in all my emails and letters to legislators, we are being disciminated against and no one is relizing it or taking any action to stop it.
Discrimination is the word that best describes how we are treated, loss of job, loss of property, friends, family, even dirty looks or comments on the streets. Yet we take it and just keep working on teaching truths about marijuana. However they just sit there and think in their heads, “Dam Stoner scum, lock his ass up”, Germany did this in the 1930-40s, the Jews didnt like it too much and the rest of the world went to war to stop it.
It really looks like the same thing on paper, not that I would ever say what the Jews went through wasnt horrific, its so, so bad, it should never be forgotten or repeated. But it kinda makes you think how we are treated and how far over the line of discrimination they truly taken this “War on American Citizens”. We are the new Minority and we should be pleading for fair and equal treatment like so many have before, the discrimination that we go through is par with how we have treated some of the minorities in our past, it should stop and stop today.
Okay Russ, while you think of some way that governmetns can save some money and fill their coffers.
I’ll try to come up with some sort of solution of the CO2 problem we have. If there were only SOME WAY to turn CO2 into Oxygen and have some useful byproducts like food, oil and fiber.
Yeah … I got nothin’ either.
I like that Slash!
..regulate ALL intoxicants – the child you save maybe yours!
can I vomit yet … I am so sick of this crap….
there is an easy answer…regulate all intoxicants…not just alc. and tabac….save the money from prohib. and spend it on schools …dooh…