Let me begin with my thought of the day, or now, of the morning as it is 3 A.M.

California needs to appropriate more funding for our universities. When accepted students are being driven to the community college system for an education that may be by no means sub-par, is depressing as all shit and feels like an infinite loop, it creates a lack of drive for the students that are stuck there in the first place. Students that didn't get accepted into universities in the first place, or students that may need that extra income and financial aid, which is no longer available to some, to get into said universities. This may create a rift in the ideal community college pursuit – a second chance. I feel that when those who received and honest first chance are being denied; then those who seek the second cannot compete. Students who rightfully made their way into college and had the backing funds to do so are being denied. Those of us who didn't cannot continue living a second rate lifestyle, there are too many of us.
Being unable to receive an education to due the cuts, many are forced to live a 'second-rate' lifestyle. What happens with second rate lifestyles? Crime and sex. It's simple. When one cannot afford pleasantries the only thing to do is to fuck. When money is tight, unprotected sex is abundant. When money is tight, crime, too, is abundant. All of the money taken away from the university system will have to be re-appropriated through pregnancy/health programs and gun control. This attempt to save money by cutting budgets, which is now removing education, can only lead to more expensive problems in the long run. While the 5% savings may help now, in the state's future, it will only be detrimental.
Just a thought.