Address it by tightening belts. By having public employee unions sacrifice benefits and wages, just like their private sector counterparts have in the Great Depr...I mean, Recession (I believe that's the officially sanctioned term the media is allowed to use). By de-funding unnecessary welfare programs.

It's a little scary how easy it is the channel the Republican state of mind.

Those professors have way too much job security, you know?

Silly Goldy. Everybody knows there is a general Waste, Fraud and Abuse fund that can be infinitely cut to appropriate funding for everything else- for example, schools*.

*just the schools- never the employees at those schools, of course.

Sadly neither the R or the D candidates for governor seem to be any better at answering this question. They seem to think it can come from Zebes' source @3

Take the end of decade cost of $20,000 per year or $80,000 for a 4 year education.

This qualifies the person for the average Seattle wage of $63,000.

Amortized over a 30 year career, that's $2,666 per year having to be spent to pay back society for the education.

This is the worse case scenario.

About half of what is paid in health insurance costs.

You'd think a newspaper in the midst of its own revenue shortfall might have a better sense for how the two sides of the balance sheet interact with each other.

No, actually, I would expect that a failing business would not have a sense for how the two sides of the balance sheet interact with each other.

@6 we're not talking about Rmoney.