RE: "Prop. 6 sets aside funds to go after gang-related crime" by George Runner.Karlos Gauna Schmieder,
This November 4th, Californians have the opportunity to decide the future for the state's children. Proposition 6 is part of a long history of expensive failed California initiatives that prey on public fears, often resort to distasteful racial stereotypes and inevitably result in budget cuts for schools and proven prevention programs rather than restore real public safety.
Proposition 6 is the latest in the line of this type of wasteful predatory public policy and dangerous thinking.
Amidst a financial and budget crisis, the fiscal arguments alone should defeat prop 6. But the debate is about much more than that. It's about changing a mindset that is content with sending our children to prison, a virtual criminal college, rather than creating strong social policies that lead to safe, stable communities and send our children to institutions of higher learning.
Prop 6 represents the tired, old politics and policies of the past. California's children are pleading for and demanding more opportunity, and all George Runner and Mike Reynolds have to offer are old ideas and prison beds.
This November, vote NO on 6 and say YES to California's children.
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