…the state’s business leaders need to ask themselves: Given our clout, why isn’t a budget solution our highest priority? Is it responsible to leverage a financial crisis for non-budgetary policy changes? Why aren’t we doing more to protect community colleges and the university system – the backbone of California’s economy? This last point is especially baffling. Cal-chamber harps constantly about how low-tax Nevada is recruiting our state’s industries. It seems not to realize that our neighbor to the east has to recruit, because it doesn’t have a university system that produces the kind of technical and economic innovations that California’s campuses do.

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by The Staff, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: January 12th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.