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State budget deal reached
July 25, 2009 12:12 PM
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders have agreed Monday on a budget that would close the $26.3 billion deficit. Other cuts include $1.2 billion to state prisons and $1.3 billion to Medi-Cal. Other welfare programs would also get cuts, but not eliminated. The AP also reported that the plan includes three unpaid furlough days till next June for state workers. The budget has to get two-thirds of the vote in the state Legislature before it becomes final. The vote will take place on Thursday.
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Get a grip people; it all started in San Francisco back in the 1960s. They wanted all of those social programs and rights, but the state no longer has the money or the will to support them.
Back in the late 1980s and 1990s during the .com/telecomm boom in Santa Clara Valley, Silicon Valley, the state suddenly had a large increase in revenue so they expanded programs and even created new ones. When the Silicon Valley bubble burst that large increase in revenue almost went away completely. I know because that is where I live. The state lawmakers just continued with those expanded and new programs even though they no longer had the money to pay for them. As a result they decided to just raise taxes, AGAIN, to make up the difference when everything started to get out of hand. However, what they did not expect was for the majority of Californians to stand up and say NO, but by then it was too late. That is why Arnold was elected.
It is a shame the cuts had to be so deep and unpopular, but too bad. The state can not continue with programs, etc. when it no longer has the money to pay for them. This is the time for a reality check. The days of taking LSD and living in a dream world in San Francisco are over.