His proposed 2011-12 budget would cut in half state funding for the State System of Higher Education and for state-related universities including Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh, Republican and Democratic legislative sources said last night.
50-percent. My God.
The article goes on to say "Lawmakers braced for deep cuts in education, community and economic development, and welfare programs."
You know, maybe it's just me, but I don't think of Education as another "program" to be cut. Whether it's public K-12 or Pennsylvania's Higher Education system -- and both are going to be officially nuked later today -- state-supported public education is a primary responsibility that we owe to our kids, ourselves and our society.
I hope that somebody organizes a Wisconsin-type protest against this outrage. Hundreds of thousands of PA taxpayers need to arrive in Harrisburg to show this governor that his priorities are not just wrong, they are immoral.
Destroying schools so that gas drillers can do their dirtywork tax-free is an abomination.
I am ashamed of my state. Deeply and completely ashamed.
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