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So remember that depressed and hopelessly downtrodden economy? You know … the one that’s got our asinine state government squandering in the sh*tter, bailing water (also known as public education) in a desperate attempt to keep itself afloat?
We’re assuming most of you have already figured this one out, but for those of you who are a little slower adding two and two, we (and Mark Baldassare) are here to inform you that cutting funds in the UC system is not exactly the best means of redress. To prolong our prior metaphor, it is, in fact, exactly like chucking all the life-vests overboard. Or throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Substitute idiom of preference here.
Let’s break it down: College costs more. –> Fewer people attend college. –> Fewer people graduate college. –> California becomes stupid.
Or, in slightly more articulate terms, read more »
