{"id":9142,"date":"2009-06-17T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-17T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T19:04:07","slug":"where-should-we-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/17\/where-should-we-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Should We Cut?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photobucket\"<\/a>I’m about to be on today’s Your Call<\/a> at 11 AM. You can stream live or nab the podcast at the Your Call<\/a> website.  This week’s programs are all focused on the budget, and today’s subject is what should we cut.<\/p>\n

It would be easy to say nothing. And that would be valid, however given the circumstances we are currently facing, that seems unlikely.  So how do we prioritize? How do we put state parks when compared to CalWORKS? How do we stack up K-12, higher ed and in-home support services? AIDS Drugs that literally keep people alive and dialysis for kidney patients that has the same effect?<\/p>\n

It is like a giant, and terrifying, game of comparing apples and oranges.  But honestly, the question is a bit loaded to me.  I just saw the new Star Trek movie yesterday, and I feel like I want to reprogram the Kobayashi Maru<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The simple answer is that we should tread very carefully about exposing one area without demanding that at least the corporate tax cut go first<\/a>. But if I were to start with one area, it would have to be prisons, and then move along from there.  So, any and all suggestions are welcome in the comments. If you have a chance, check out the  Your Call<\/a> show at 11 today.  (Picture from WhyBeNormal<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Photobucket\"<\/a>I’m about to be on today’s Your Call<\/a> at 11 AM. You can stream live or nab the podcast at the Your Call<\/a> website.  This week’s programs are all focused on the budget, and today’s subject is what should we cut.<\/p>\n

It would be easy to say nothing. And that would be valid, however given the circumstances we are currently facing, that seems unlikely.  So how do we prioritize? How do we put state parks when compared to CalWORKS? How do we stack up K-12, higher ed and in-home support services? AIDS Drugs that literally keep people alive and dialysis for kidney patients that has the same effect?<\/p>\n

It is like a giant, and terrifying, game of comparing apples and oranges.  But honestly, the question is a bit loaded to me.  I just saw the new Star Trek movie yesterday, and I feel like I want to reprogram the Kobayashi Maru<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The simple answer is that we should tread very carefully about exposing one area without demanding that at least the corporate tax cut go first<\/a>. But if I were to start with one area, it would have to be prisons, and then move along from there.  So, any and all suggestions are welcome in the comments. If you have a chance, check out the  Your Call<\/a> show at 11 today.  (Picture from WhyBeNormal<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[1925,60],"class_list":["post-9142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","tag-1925","tag-60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ns","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}