Tuesday, July 28, 2009

How to Terminate California


Wow, all the waiting...and waiting...and waiting...for what? Education was the hardest hit AGAIN. So what the heck required all that deliberation?

In brief, here is what Arnie arm wrestled folks in to signing:

* Education spending -$9.3 billion.
* Health and human services -$3 billion.
* Government spending -$1.7 billion.
* State employees pay -$820 million.
* Prison spending -$785 million.
* Vetoes -$489 million
* +$1 billion shifted to state's general fund from other state accounts.
* +$1.4 billion from delayed payroll and health premium payments.
* +$3.5 billion from tax withholding and other changes.
* +$2.2 billion borrowed from local governments and the State Highway Account.

So what I see here is: 1) California schools will be taken off life support and now will be officially dead, mental illness and criminal activity will be on the rise, and Gavin Newsom better hold on REAL tight to the SF purse strings because the Governator is coming for our "rainy day fund." Yikes!!!