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Life sucks sometimes.
Mar. 15th, 2009 11:48The state budget crisis has hit counties hard. This came home to me today when I discovered that the budget for the Contra Costa Master Gardeners -- via the Cooperative Extension -- has been cut to zero.
Zero. Nothing. It'll have to close, just like that.
I could write pages on what Cooperative Extension has done for the county and for me personally, how ours is the most vital and thriving Master Gardeners Association in Northern California. I could rant and rave and tell you all to write to the supervisors, or go to the County Board of Supes meeting on Tuesday. But really, none of it matters; government is cutting bone now, and cuts not made in one place will go even deeper elsewhere. There are no winners.
Decades of service... slash, poof, gone.
Sigh.
Zero. Nothing. It'll have to close, just like that.
I could write pages on what Cooperative Extension has done for the county and for me personally, how ours is the most vital and thriving Master Gardeners Association in Northern California. I could rant and rave and tell you all to write to the supervisors, or go to the County Board of Supes meeting on Tuesday. But really, none of it matters; government is cutting bone now, and cuts not made in one place will go even deeper elsewhere. There are no winners.
Decades of service... slash, poof, gone.
Sigh.
