It’s Already Doomsday

April 13, 2011 at 12:13 am arunramanathan Leave a comment

The amount of ink that will be spilled over the next few weeks on the “Doomsday Scenario” for the Education budget will be enough to swamp just about any other story. Given that this is the fourth such scenario we will have faced in CA over the last four years, you can imagine why some folks might shrug it off. We’ve been pretty good at raising the stakes to apocalyptic proportions in CA whenever we confront another budget crisis. Now, we hear that the CTA and others will be leading Wisconsin style actions in Sacramento in a couple of weeks – occupying the Capitol and picketing the homes of Republican legislators. This will raise the temperature and should get them a lot of ink. But will produce any results? Seems to me the only ones that Republicans listen to are other Republicans. Or folks with a lot of money. Course the same could be said for some Democrats…

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