UC students, what are you thinking?

Yes, I understand tuition has gone up significantly but stopping traffic on major highways is not the answer. That will just piss people off and gain you NO sympathy. Also, have you thought about your own safety? Someone just might run your ass over.

Budget cuts are no fun for anyone. But what can we do about it? First, lets understand the situation. Budget deficit or deficit spending means (as I understand it in layman's terms) that there is not enough money to go around. Period. So the state can either go into more debt or we cut back. Now, I'm not going to analyze what happened and how we got here because I think we all know that the people we trusted to run our state had failed us over the decades. So let's just focus on now and the future.

Now, you would think in this current economy, we all can appreciate the concept of reducing debt by cutting spending. However, it seems that when the reduction affects you personally, the plan all of a sudden becomes unfair. But why is that? I think it all does back to us being a nation of entitlement. "You deserve this...". I say we deserve nothing. We need to EARN our keep. You work hard and make sacrifices today for a better tomorrow.

I'm not saying that raising UC tuition or cutting K-12 education are the right things to do. But from the media, it seems like those were the only budgets begin cut and the plan is the root of all evil. I personally don't know how to fix the budget but all I know is that the situation will get worst before it gets better.