[gbiddulph]

Pastor, I agree with you.  There is another test taking place right before our eyes:  California and Texas.  California is trying the "European welfare state" model, which is high taxes and high benefits.  The results:  12 percent unemployment and govt unions sucking the state dry.  The middle class is fleeing California by the millions.  I hope Jerry Brown has the guts to change that unworkable dynamic, but I think I have great reason to believe he will change nothing except to increase the volume of California\'s cry for bailouts.

Texas meanwhile has followed the "low taxation, low benefit" model.  There is no state income tax in Texas.  Texas\' unemployment is near 7 percent, and the state is growing and booming.  Hundreds of businesses and hundreds of thousands of people are moving there from other states.  It seems to me the results are already in.

When it comes to higher education at public institutions (which affects 10 of the 12 universities in the Pac 12), I cannot see any future in which the current model is sustainable.  We are already seeing that at Kal and elsewhere with the cancellation of various sports programs and the increase in tuition.  This is only the beginning, imho.

[gbiddulph]

Pastor, I agree with you.  There is another test taking place right before our eyes:  California and Texas.  California is trying the "European welfare state" model, which is high taxes and high benefits.  The results:  12 percent unemployment and govt unions sucking the state dry.  The middle class is fleeing California by the millions.  I hope Jerry Brown has the guts to change that unworkable dynamic, but I think I have great reason to believe he will change nothing except to increase the volume of California\'s cry for bailouts.

Texas meanwhile has followed the "low taxation, low benefit" model.  There is no state income tax in Texas.  Texas\' unemployment is near 7 percent, and the state is growing and booming.  Hundreds of businesses and hundreds of thousands of people are moving there from other states.  It seems to me the results are already in.

When it comes to higher education at public institutions (which affects 10 of the 12 universities in the Pac 12), I cannot see any future in which the current model is sustainable.  We are already seeing that at Kal and elsewhere with the cancellation of various sports programs and the increase in tuition.  This is only the beginning, imho.