{"id":1027,"date":"2004-01-13T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2004-01-13T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/01\/13\/bloody_governor.html"},"modified":"2004-01-13T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2004-01-13T11:00:59","slug":"bloody_governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/01\/13\/bloody_governor.html","title":{"rendered":"bloody governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As everyone i know is panicking because of the job market and heading back to school, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/news\/budget\/\">our f%#king governor is _yet again_ hiking the tuition (by 40%), reducing services and making it harder for California citizens to get an education<\/a>.  Of course, i will acknowledge that he&#8217;s quite constrained because 3\/4 of the State&#8217;s budget is allocated by Propositions.  One thing i learned living in California is how ridiculous it is to do budgeting by voting.<\/p>\n<p>Take a scenario that i witnessed at Brown.  A survey went out.  How many of you think that cable TV should be freely accessible in dorms?  Well, most people shrugged their shoulders.  Even if they didn&#8217;t watch TV, why not, right?  Of course, implementing this meant that money got cut for computing services.  No one told us what would be lost based on our decisions.<\/p>\n<p>::grumble::grumble:: At least Piled Higher and Deeper made me smile about the situation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive.php?comicid=402\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=400 border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive\/phd011204s.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As everyone i know is panicking because of the job market and heading back to school, our f%#king governor is _yet again_ hiking the tuition (by 40%), reducing services and making it harder for California citizens to get an education. Of course, i will acknowledge that he&#8217;s quite constrained because 3\/4 of the State&#8217;s budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}