Um, kewp, again not trying to pick up a fight here. But when an organization, your organization that employees you, declares they have at least a $417million shortfall, don’t you think somehow you’re going to be affected?
Read the fine print!
It’s $417 million less than what the Regents asked for.
We are getting a $223 million budget increase, then taking a 10% ($332 million) haircut. So really its more like getting $90 million dinged off of our current budget.
Since students are our #1 cost, its easy to make that up by restricting enrollment and raising fees. Which is not an issue because we have kids clamoring at the door to get in.
If the state/fed government goes kaput, yeah I’m (and you and everyone else) in deep doo-doo.
But personally, my opinion is we can easily balance our budget if we stop waging war while cutting taxes for rich people. Hopefully President Obama will do that. 🙂
