The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has seemingly developed a plan for California in order to make the public university system more important than prisons in the state budget. Schwarzenegger believes that either privatizing the services of the prisons or even the prisons all together will save a chunk of the prisons' budget. Since there are many protests on numerous campuses of universities about budget cuts, this switch to the higher priority for California, schools, will have plenty of support. Lawmakers were being persuaded by Schwarzenegger who claimed that,
The priorities have become out of whack over the years. I mean, think about it, 30 years ago, 10 percent of the general fund went to higher education, and 3 percent went to prisons. Today, almost 11 percent goes to prisons, and only 7.5 percent goes to higher education.
This plan to make a law to keep the public university's percent of the Californian budget bigger than the prison's percent of the budget is a great idea because California's money should support the education of or future lawyers, doctors, senators, or even presidents rather than waste the money on criminals who should be getting the bare-minimum treatment for their wrong doings. Hopefully this law will be put into affect very soon so universities can get the chance to supply students with the education they deserve.
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