California's Budget is Your Crisis

Whoever would have thought that California budget crisis would affect so many people. Usually when something bad happens it's usually not you right. You know like, your neighbor loss their job. Your friends' child can't get into college or one of your friends has no medical insurance. Well if you haven't noticed it's not happening to someone else especially if you're reside in California. Its happening to your friends and your family, everyone is being affected in some way.

If your one of the 35,000 very unlucky community college students in Los Angeles County then you know what I'm talking about. Less than three weeks ago all of Los Angeles county nine community colleges cancelled their summer sessions. Big deal right well not if you're like most transferring college students who are graduating and graduated this spring with a conditional admittance and still has classes in progress in the summer. You see if you can't get that last required class you no longer get in. What do you do then? If you are one of the lucky one you had a registered for the first summer session which was kept otherwise you're out of luck. You could of course postpone admittance if the school allows it but you the run the risk of having to start paying back your school loans if you're out of class to long while waiting until the fall to go back to community college which is pretty packed already with students who couldn't get in the summer session. Two years ago we had five summer session then the following year two and now one. What's next, zero summer sessions? Will the winter intercession be cut our next, I don't really know but the outlook is quite murky. Many of us go to school to get a better job or train for a professional career but how can that happen now? Also, with the state cutting need based aid it seems like it's getting harder and harder to prosper. No one wants to live in poverty but it getting harder and harder to avoid it. California needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed soon before the gap between the have and the have not get so wide you can't tell if you're standing in the Grand Canyon.

Californians are getting desperate here and some are making the hard decision to move. Let's hope that the ones who are able to get out are treated as the new illegal aliens and shunned for taking locals jobs and turned away as so many have been done here in California .