Jun/090
Cal Grant Please: A letter to the Governor
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,
I am quite grateful to receive the Cal Grant award to further my education. Without it, I and many other Californians would not be able to attend an institute in this state. I am hoping that you would not remove Cal Grant, especially during dire situations as this.
I am confused on why you would think about removing it from the state budget. Even though I know that the state is depleted and funds, I believe that cutting into any education budget will have bad outcomes. I see it as a easy-fix for a temporary situation as it would relief a lot of stress from this year’s crisis, but in the long run it will be destructive as education is the foundation of people’s careers. Without further education, most careers that are in California, especially the Bay Area, would not be able to be ran. We would require more people from outside and their help. this would deplete California of resources even quicker. Without proper education, Californians would not be able to properly secure jobs in the area and would have to move other areas where they could meet their needs. The removal of Cal Grant would worsen the economy in the long run as it would mean that people who should have furthered their education to take up positions would not be there. This would make an influx of blue-collar workers and this would be disastrous. It would lower competition in the free market thus allowing for more monopolies to arise in different markets. This would mean that less people would be spending their time to think of better means to get on with life, thus slowing the increase of technological advances. This would mean more people will have less money and most of the money will be in the hands of a few. Having money amassed in certain individuals would mean that there would be less circulation of funds. Less circulation of funds would thus mean less circulation of goods or deflation, and as our country is always overproducing goods, this would mean less circulation of goods most probably. This would mean the standard of living would fall slightly and put us further into a recession. We are always overproducing goods, and the major problem is there are not enough buyers. This is a communication problem which we should be able to solve but cannot at this time.
Honestly, I would think it a better idea to make corporations pay higher taxes for their land. Such businesses as Wells Fargo pays a very minor sum for large properties of land due to the relatively new property tax change. I understand that the change would encourage businesses and firms to buy property thus encouraging businesses and allocate new jobs, but I do not think that it is necessary to give them nearly free property as it is right now. I would think it better that there would be a tax-relief service to start-up companies that would need a generous donation of money to operate for the first four years of business or so as those are the hardest for a new business. Such companies that have owned properties of land for more than a century are taking advantage of this property tax situation to an extreme.
Sincerely,
Robin Chang
I hope that more people will send letters to the governor! http://gov.ca.gov/interact
Jun/090
Simply Complicated Director
Heyyy, I’m trying to find a person to film an episode. Your computer needs to be able to run Sims 3 as that is the platform.
What you get: Sims 3
What you do: Play a couple of scenes
Thanks!
Jun/090
To-do List – before college
High Priority…
- Get a job
- Learn guitar
- Get my driver’s license
- Practice calculus
- Practice drawing
- Practice writing
- Read a book on electrical engineering
- Do some circuit work (make self-cleaning windows or something like that)
- Improve my photography
- Get a girlfriend
Random little things..
- Go to a concert
- Bowl
- Mini-golf
- Go to San Francisco
- Go to Santana Row
- Laser tag
- Film episode 1 of Simply Complicated
- Water Park