http://erietimes.pa.newsmemory.com/?publink=24e52dd54

What to watch for in the (PA) governor’s budget proposal

“It is laboring under an estimated $67 billion debt in its two large public sector pension systems”

The Tom Ridge legacy.

“Persistent cost increases for health care, prisons and pensions can be expected to absorb much of the state’s natural growth in tax revenues.”

We have had a national health department since 1939. We might as well have called it the war on health as cost wise it has had the same result as the wars on drugs, poverty and terrorism. We should expect better after 80 years.

We have the highest per capita prison population on the planet. Manly due to the failed war on drugs filling prisons with non-dangerous offenders. Illegal drug trade has turned Mexico into a disaster.

Education

“Wolf is expected to continue his five-year push to give more money to public schools amid a lawsuit accusing the state of harboring deep inequities in how it funds the poorest public schools.”

It is no secret a major education expense is the skyrocketing administration load which surpasses enrollment rates.

It is time to trash all the “Therian studies and acceptance” programs, safe rooms and the plethora of administrators and get back to being grownups.

The state runs these programs, not grownups, and that is why the hole keeps being dug deeper. The solution will never come from the “state”.

Be seeing you