You can talk about waste all you want, and there’s certainly waste at the University of California. But we’re looking at a need that runs into the billions, multiple billions, tens of billions — and eliminating a few million bucks of waste here and there isn’t going to solve the problem… You could probably solve half of the schools’ fiscal problems by releasing from prison every single inmate serving time for a drug offense; that’s the kind of dramatic steps we’re talking about. And if anyone wants to launch a political campaign to let 30,000 prisoners free tomorrow, I’m with you. But it’s not going to happen, not in this climate. So the only real option is to get more revenue.

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by Tim Redmond, The San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Posted: March 5th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.