Clash of the Titans.....

Y’know what’s a really big deal here in sunny California, other than the drought and the big one (earthquake) that’s coming, ‘n the ever-present illegal immigrant (alien) situation.....(they keep calling ‘em illegal aliens as opposed, I suppose, to legal aliens which always makes me think “They came from outer space”....but, I digress, which I confess, I do often ‘n sumtimes so much so that I forget where I started out to be in the first place.)...but not tonite.....No, tonite the really big deal is the annual clash of the California Titans....THE BUDGET....Da, da-dum, dum.......the minority Republicans ain’t gonna let the majority Democrats raise taxes ‘n the Democrats know that but it gives both of ‘em the opportunity to point at each other and blame the ‘other’ side for not passing the budget.....’Course, they do it every year and, as a matter of fact, they prepare themselves for it every year by pre-arranging finances so that the Legislators and their staffs are taken care of and won’t have to apply for unemployment insurance and foodstamps the way that reg’lar working folk do.... George Orwell wrote a book titled ‘Animal Farm’ wherein he explained that some animals are more equal than other animals.....so in August, the elite California Legislature (like the elite U.S. Congress) prove yet again that some animals are more equal than the rest of us.....Anyhow, in a recent letter to the editor of the new and better, restyled and unbiased Sacramento Bee, Teacher Glen Warren prob’ly revealed a little more of himself than intended when he begged the Legislature to 'please work it out, just don't cut education' showing himself to be one of the stumbling blocks in California’s budget problems...Y’can cut anywhere as long as you don’t cut on me.....well, la-te- da.. y’know, Oz never did give nuthin’ to the tin man that he didn’t already have.....’n one of the lessons that I learned in grade school wuz the futility of crying ‘poor little me’.....teachers in California ain’t overpaid ‘n too many of them use their own money to buy supplies for their students....and the buildings ain’t getting repaired..... the taxpayers keep paying and the students are getting stiffed.....And even tho' we can't afford it, we (the oh so naive taxpayer) have promised to give Education more money every year.....So, the money pours into Education but where do it go?.....If we were to follow one of the main rules of any investigation...(ie, follow the money)...would we be surprised to learn that maybe, just maybe, the bureaucracy of the school system is top-heavy with administrators and corrupt individuals who pad billings, divert school funds to lobby legislators and, in general, sup long and often at the public trough all the while bemoaning the terrible injustice done to the children of California..... ‘Course, none of them seem to give a damn about the terrible injustice done to the working citizenry of California...
Ah well, I suppose we pretty much reap what we sow ‘n it would appear that we’ve mixed a lot of weeds in with the seeds we planted....’N then, without the ‘illegal’ immigrants to tend our crops for us.....well, you get the picture, don’t you??????