Quote from peilthetraveler:
This needs to be repeated. The 8th largest economy in the world in a 1st world nation needs to be the biggest story in the news. If the mainstream media isnt going to talk about it, at least we should talk about that way we can prepare, hedge and make money off it.
Cutting education would solve all the problems. Double up the size of the classrooms and sell half the k-12 schools and you save 48.5 billion per year. That gets us out of debt and lowers our taxes, not to mention encourages investment in our state if we have low taxes which will lead to more jobs.
Only problem is that its in CA's constitution that they cant cut education. Some jack off politian that was trying to make himself look good did that.
In my opinion we dont need to spend 100 billion per year to basically tell a kid that he has to read a book and do his homework. Yeah some kids will fall though the cracks if we double up classroom sizes, but at least then we will be able give low paying jobs to actual americans that got bad grade in school rather than export jobs or give jobs to illegal mexicans.