California voters demand budget cuts
California voters defeated a special election of budget measures that would have implemented a combination of higher taxes, increased borrowing, funding shifts, and spending reforms to deal with a record budget deficit.
Will the state government make the painful, but necessary, spending cuts? Or, will the Obama administration step in and bail out California?
Read here.
Todd Kading said:
Bail-out is on its way.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Matt said:
Cut cut cut.. everything.
Cut illegal immigration benefits
charge at border entries
cut welfare
cut the overabundance of state workers
cut cut snip snip!
we win in the end
May 20th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Daniel Encarnacion said:
Oh I am sure the successful states will be bailing out the unsuccesful ones. Of course taxing success in order to reward failure is dumb but since liberals are in charge… what else would we expect. What they don’t get is that California is a labratory experiement of liberalism. Liberalism always fails. Now they want to apply California solutions to the American budget. Let’s see how that works out.
May 20th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Morgen Miles said:
I agree they will try for a bailout. Please let’s not let that happen. we can not afford to lose that battle.
May 21st, 2009 at 8:25 am
Roger said:
California will have to cut because they did not get the vote to raise taxes. The problem is they will cut fire, police and school funding instead of the EPA, research for the one legged clam in Redondo Beach, the Social Services Department, Acorn funding and education for illegal students.
Obamma will try to fund this but you will find a major backlash because if 65% of Californians will not pay for it, states like Idaho will fight back hard before they pay for protecting sagebrush in the sagebrush park.
May 21st, 2009 at 8:27 am
marym said:
Daniel Encarnacion: \Oh I am sure the successful states will be bailing out the unsuccesful ones\
There are successful states? Must be the best kept secret in the country, otherwise everyone would be moving to them. Care to share which ones they are - presumptuous of me that there is more than one.
May 21st, 2009 at 8:31 pm
msullivan001 said:
So embarrassed but we will most likely get a bail out. Sorry Roger that “The boy crying wolf” tactic of losing fire depts, police and teachers has gone on too long. They always pull that card. We are tired of it. Cut the budget and suck up the spending.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:14 am
BruceA said:
“There are successful states? Must be the best kept secret in the country, otherwise everyone would be moving to them. Care to share which ones they are - presumptuous of me that there is more than one.”
There are 47 states running deficits - so that means there are three that aren’t!
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/may2009/db20090522_625957.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis
“According to the nonprofit Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, some 47 states face budget gaps in the 2010 and 2011 fiscal years. (Hats off to you Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota.)”
I did hear the Gov. Palin will cut their state budget by 30% - so my guess is that they’re in the black also. But the next question is always, which states can still manuever and have the political will to maneuver into the black. I would suggest that those are also successful states (vs. CA and NY, and many of the blue states.)
May 24th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Mags said:
The defeat of the proposals were just to get their attention., If you saw a copy of the proposed budget, you would see very lttle effort in trying to reign in costs or downsize any state government pork. I think those corrupt politicians really thought we weren’t paying attention this time. Right now, the fight is on to keep them from turning “taxes” into the “fees & surcharges” that magically appear on everything in this state. We also need to let them know that we aren’t putting up with cutting necessary programs while they keep their pet projects around for the lobby piggies. The fight is just beginning!
May 26th, 2009 at 1:10 pm