2008 Woodie Awards
Budget cuts deep, but not that deep...
Issue date: 4/15/08 Section: Letters to the Editor
[In reference to "High tuition, less education", April 8]
Come on! There are two ways to look at the State's economy: First, that there is a never ending cash flow and that if everyone doesn't get what they want, it must be the greed of the state government or Governor Schwarzenegger's, a.k.a. The Governator, inability to run a good business.
The other way to look at this is that there is only so much money in the State's coffers and that someone's going to get their piece of the pie sliced just a little more thinly.
Does anybody think that Schwarzenegger is so incompetent that he doesn't know the effects of the cut to the education budget? I doubt it. To say that he can't run a state budget because he failed at his Planet Hollywood venture is to put it too simplistically. The cuts are deep but not so deep that the average student, especially at SSU, won't be able to afford school anymore.
SSU has students from all backgrounds with all sorts of work ethics. School is tough...but not that tough. Full-time school with no work (typical SSU student) is not tough at all. Full-time school with part-time work...kind of tough. Full-time school with full-time work...that's tough. Full-time school, full-time work, plus full-time parent...look out!
When you want something badly enough, you'll work through anything to get to it. Student-parents at SSU have it tough. The average student at SSU is not a parent.
When I read about the cuts made to the education budget I'm not thinking, "Oh no. The average white, upper-middle class, eighteen and nineteen year old driving the new car his parents bought him, all the while drinking every weekend, barely passing his classes, with absolutely no work ethic isn't going to be able to come to SSU. Shame on the Governor!" I assure you, I won't miss that student.
Have some perspective when writing about things like the education budget cuts and include solutions to the problems that arise because of things than the Governor's decisions. Give credit where credit is due. God forbid someone actually has to work to go to school!
~Alex Martin
Come on! There are two ways to look at the State's economy: First, that there is a never ending cash flow and that if everyone doesn't get what they want, it must be the greed of the state government or Governor Schwarzenegger's, a.k.a. The Governator, inability to run a good business.
The other way to look at this is that there is only so much money in the State's coffers and that someone's going to get their piece of the pie sliced just a little more thinly.
Does anybody think that Schwarzenegger is so incompetent that he doesn't know the effects of the cut to the education budget? I doubt it. To say that he can't run a state budget because he failed at his Planet Hollywood venture is to put it too simplistically. The cuts are deep but not so deep that the average student, especially at SSU, won't be able to afford school anymore.
SSU has students from all backgrounds with all sorts of work ethics. School is tough...but not that tough. Full-time school with no work (typical SSU student) is not tough at all. Full-time school with part-time work...kind of tough. Full-time school with full-time work...that's tough. Full-time school, full-time work, plus full-time parent...look out!
When you want something badly enough, you'll work through anything to get to it. Student-parents at SSU have it tough. The average student at SSU is not a parent.
When I read about the cuts made to the education budget I'm not thinking, "Oh no. The average white, upper-middle class, eighteen and nineteen year old driving the new car his parents bought him, all the while drinking every weekend, barely passing his classes, with absolutely no work ethic isn't going to be able to come to SSU. Shame on the Governor!" I assure you, I won't miss that student.
Have some perspective when writing about things like the education budget cuts and include solutions to the problems that arise because of things than the Governor's decisions. Give credit where credit is due. God forbid someone actually has to work to go to school!
~Alex Martin
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Michael Stone
posted 4/16/08 @ 4:02 PM PST
First let me say that I agree with you that the governor's ability to run the chain of Planet Hollywood does not relate to his ability to run the state economy. (Continued…)
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