UCB RIP_4

shrinking. Inmates of the state prisons are about to be released into the general population. State medical services are going to be cut. A variety of pre-school and elementary school programs are headed for the axe. Vital agricultural programs are in jeopardy. Programs to assist the elderly are being curtailed or canceled. Bad times are like that: Good programs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], even necessary programs, suffer. People suffer. Intelligent public investment suffers as well; health and education may be vital to the state's future prosperity - most of the engineers in Silicon Valley were trained at Berkeley, for example; the state recouped on that investment in a big way - but it's not news that the poor are unable to invest. Each program has its own constituency, and often that constituency seems to feel more deserving of consideration than other constituencies who are also being injured. Lobbying for exceptional treatment can be an unseemly exercise. But still, without intending any particular

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