Thread: Letter to my governor

I just sent this to my governor, as I know my numbers are 100% correct, it would save a ton of money for our state.




Mr. Governor,

As one of your supporters, I feel it is my place to help you out when I can. It is reported you are lookingfor another 8 billion in cuts over the next few months. I would like to make a suggestion that will help our schools to the tune of 25o million, and help the budget with a estimated 4 billion dollars, as this will take minute, please be patient.

You ( the government ) do a lot of printing, a lot. When you use an 8 x 11 sheet of paper, with a quality printer, it costs you anywhere from .18 to .22 cents per side that you print on, this is the cost of ink.

Somewhere in Sacramento, someone got the bright idea that it should be mandated that any notices sent home to parents will be printed on one side in English, the other in Spanish.

Now, we have approximately 6.3 million kids in Californias public schools. Going off of my tracking, my daughter had over 100 notes sent home last year.

So, do the math, 6.3 multiplied by an average of 2 cents (extra) for each note sent home,then multiply that by an estimated 100 plus notes sent home.

Next, I would challange you to think of all the paperwork California state prints in other languages, at an extra cost of 2 cents per page.

This could easily amount to a few billion dollars of extra cost to the state. I am sorry if people cannot speak the language of the land, but we are broke.

It should be up to each and every individual to provide their own interpreters, and or make arrangements for items to be translated as needed, not the already struggling tax payers

You have been cutting for years, and it still is not enough, it is time to stop the extra feel good items and let people be responsible for themselves.

Thank You

Good letter and good angle. Come to think of it, I had a hissy fit over reports that the Lee Co. FL school district was printing guides for parents to help kids with homework in English, Spanish and Haitian-Creole. How can a parent help with lessons in English if they can't speak or read the language? And this was at a time of the real estate boom and the district was desperately looking to build more schools to handle the population surge. At the same time there had been a law passed to limit classroom size, while the county school administration moved into a brand new fancy building.
And yes, I use the back side of stuff I have printed out. Why waste and cause death to another tree?

I am all over our schools budget.........they wouldn't believe me when I said its an average of .02 cents per side of paper......so .04 cents per note.

so each time a note is sent home in our state it is

students in public school 6, 300,0000
times .02 cents ( for spanish) x.02
-------------
$126000

and thats just for the extra language. If we only posted notes electronically, each time a note is sent home would be worth a quarter million dollars

let the parents who dont have internet come by the school weekly to check a bulletin board for notices

If done nationwide, I couldnt imagine the cost savings to the country, and all it would take is making english the official language, and requiring all government business be conducted in english, like England just did