Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (312649)	11/27/2006 4:13:15 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572771

"but actually improving the standards of public education" That is the key. You also have to count access to higher education. In general, the better educated the average person is, the more likely the state is to attract and keep good paying jobs. That was the strength of California until recently. It was cheap to go to college there for state residents. That made a huge difference. To my great surprise, the politicians here made a huge commitment to upgrading higher education in the state during the Boom. Their main focus was to have some world class universities and to diversify the state economy from just oil and agriculture. Even during the Bust, they kept investing as much as they could. They were mostly successful, the state economy has a much wider base and TU and A&M are excellent universities. But the crowd that came in with Dubya are focussed now on cutting taxes and promoting the needs of the national Republican party. So they are cutting state support for the universities and have put them on the road to becoming essentially private. Which is a huge mistake.