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Published online 8 June 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.553
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Californian universities caught in budget hell
State-wide cash crisis shuts down building projects and recruitment plans.
California's universities are reeling from unprecedented budget cuts that have been triggered by the state's financial crisis.
The ten-campus University of California expects to see a cut of US$800 million from the $3.
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California universities masively consume budget while producing little graduated value. They are money laundering schemes and social engineering fiascos. Intelligence does exist, it can be measured, it does make a difference. 40 years of coddling the Officially Sad by crushing the able and productive have caught up with California and the US as a whole. They paid an exhorbitantly terrible price to purchase a defective future, and now that future has arrived to specification. Why are they complaining?
A Stanford inhabitant's, slinging off at Cal again?
"California universities masively consume budget while producing little graduated value. They are money laundering schemes and social engineering fiascos." References? Evidence? Thanks.
"Uncle Al" makes assertions about California universities, but given the very broad agreement about their ranking with respect to universities as a whole, one has to conclude that he thinks the entire enterprise of higher education is of similarly low value and moral standing. I don't think he will find a lot of support for that proposition.
I must respond to "Uncle Al" Schwartz. Please dear Sir explain what you mean by "money laundering schemes" and "social engineering"? First Al look up those terms and then respond to these questions. Do you argue that universities are not creating value in our civilization? Who should run our businesses, build and engineer new machines, create new systems of finance, investigate human health and disease?
It would seem from his website (http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/) that "Uncle Al" Schwartz is an angry, raging bigot and all-out menace to polite society. Moreover, his contention that UC has "graduated little value" rather ignores the University's significant contributions to biotechnology, microelectronics and much, much more that drives the economy of this state. On a more important note, the state of CA is risking killing the goose that lays the golden egg by further cutting its support to UC. Times are tough in the Golden State indeed, but they will not be getting better any time soon if the engine of the economy is further undermined by slashing budget cuts.