Looming Fiscal Crisis in CA
Apr 21st, 2008 at 7:34 am by Susie
Look what happens when you gut education spending. (Love those propositions!) Who could have known?
With baby boomers preparing to retire as the best educated and most skilled workforce in U.S. history, a growing chorus of demographers and labor experts is raising concerns that workers in California and the nation lack the critical skills needed to replace them.
In particular, experts say, the immigrant workers needed to fill many of the boomer jobs lack the English-language skills and basic educational levels to do so. Many immigrants are ill-equipped to fill California’s fastest-growing positions, including computer software engineers, registered nurses and customer service representatives, a new study by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute found.
File it under “common sense isn’t”.
I mean, this is basic. A group of humans, whether it calls itself a “civilization” or “the Springfield High chess club”, had better invest some effort in bringing along the next generation, or it’ll face extinction.
Correction: it’s not JUST humans, all organisms face the same imperative. It’s just that humans are much more easily distracted by shiny moronic economic theories about how they can fund schools with tax-cuts and crap like that.
You are an idiot! Taxes and the high rate of funding education in California has ruined a once great state. Arnold is the best thing that ever happened to you guys and you don’t even know it!