Question #1:
K-12 Education was worth $35 Billion of the total Budget in California in 2005-2006. Higher education was worth $10 billion and Health was worth $18 billion. Social Services and Criminal Justice were just under $10 billion each. Do you think that K-12 education really needed $35 billion dollars or that Criminal Justice needed $9.7 billion? Express some changes you would make in the budget concerning cuts, revisions or possible ideas you would recommend to the state budget committee. What area is the least important out of these five listed above and Why?
Question #2:
Do you think that California should elect people by their Party Affiliations or by their specific individual ideologies? Would this type of election better the Budget process or weaken it? When the Senate and Assembly vote to pass the Budget, why does the process take so long?
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It seems unnecessary that the K-12 education system had to have 35 million dollars. I understand that education is important and that that range of schooling is for a lot of kids, money is not the solution to having better schools. As Obama himself said in one of his presidential debates, throwing money at the school system is not going to solve anything. It does need money, but it also needs parents who encourage their kids to go to school and who have a good home environment that induces learning and produces motivated children. It seems high also for the criminal justice department to have almost 10 billion dollars. I don't think that in relation to higher education for example, which gets the same amount but has to provide for hundreds of thousands of students, should get the same. It seems like if anything, we could cut some off that budget for criminal justice employees' pensions.
I do think it is a bit much to give $35 million dollars to K-12 schools, the K-12 schools do need money but I dont necessarily agree that if we didnt have K-12 schools more kids would be acting out. The home life has a lot to do with how kids behave, Like Alyssa said I think a better home life would prevent acting out. Kids act out in school and not at home also. You cant make a kid want to learn they have to want to learn. I do think that more money needs to go to criminal justice should get more money, but if tution was paid more people wouldnt go to college because they couldnt afford it then what are they gonna do with their lives? The criminal justice system would have more action than now. I think both education and criminal justice are both important.
we clearly need to spend money on schools in order to make them run efficiently, but I think that we should be fixing the school systems problems before we dump 35 million dollars into it. If we don't fix the funding allocation issues before hand the money will just end up getting mismanaged and misused. I don't believe that any of the services that were listed are less important than another, we need them all in order to function as a society the problem isn't which one is worth less to us, but why they're not functioning properly. I would suggest that we make inquires into each of the industries to find out where they are having problems, fix them, then spend money on the systems.
I think the biggest problem with the budget is not how much money is devoted to each area but how it is divided from there.There has to be a way to cut from one without cutting from all, for example in education if the budget is cut, stop all non-critical campus improvements in all schools instead of laying off teachers. I am not sure which area is the least important, that is why all of them need to be cut slightly.
Most of this the people of California voted for to implement. I do not think that we should be the ones to decide on a budget and how much to spend towards what. Californian's are going to spend all of the money. Legislatures may give only what is needed to how they see it.
I think that it would take long either way. It seems like now it will never pass on time because 2/3 are needed and I believe one party should have the power to decide which would be the majoirty party.
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