Can It Be Too Late?

                 Why have a majority of recent generations of Americans refused the responsibility for the governance of America? Have their parents and teachers failed them? Why have they failed to learn the workings of our laws? Why have they seemed to have failed to understand the working of the rules of democracy and of American republicanism? Why are they not using our system for governing ourselves. Why have they  so easily given up their governance?

            O when will they ever learn? It has become very late?

                                                                 rcs

We Make Rules for Conservation and Distribution

We Have often decided that public goods and common resources really need to be shared fairly.

            We are becoming more careful of the extraction of many of these goods and are learning more appropriate conservation of them. We can decide how to use all of our resources and have long done so. We need to continue learning how we really want to do so. We need to continually redecide how to do so fairly and in a way that keeps them continually available. We need to keep aware of how public goods and common resources are being used. I believe that we want to assure that neither ourselves nor our children without a health giving or life giving good.

                                                                        Richard

Universiry of California at Berkeley

Governance With RCS including: Californians, people, citizens, governing, education, university, Land Grant College

 

                It appears that most Californians no longer think of the University of California as our university.  If that is the fact, I am sure that there is a very good reason for them to think so.

                Californians now, it seems, think so little of their university that the now give it very little support emotionally, intellectually, or financially. For the first time in the history of the University, private philanthropy contributes more to it than do the people of the State.  I am grateful that such help is available. However, I also see it as another case of giving to the 1% that which once belonged to the people.

                Once, our plan for the University was that it not only be an engine that fueled the economic prosperity of California, but also an institution that developed citizens capable of governing the State and to help govern the Nation.

                Where we once were willing to pay for for the education of  students who were able to govern as well as to produce wealth, we are now putting our governance into the hands of those few parents who can afford to pay for a great education for for their offspring now and to those certain powerful organized private parties with a great accumulation of wealth.   

                What is the status of U of C at B as a Land Grant college?

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                                                                RCS