Posted on 07/28/2009 12:50:51 PM PDT by SmithL
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a package of budget bills Tuesday he said contained "the good, the bad and the ugly," including no new tax increases and deep cuts in education and health care.
He said he was forced to make additional cuts in parks and child welfare services because lawmakers sent him a package that was $156 million in the red.
"We are not out of the troubled waters yet," he said."We are ready if our revenues drop further to make the necessary cuts to again live within our means."
Line items totaled $656 million, including cuts in the Office of Aids Prevention and Treatment.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, questioned Schwarzenegger's legal authority to veto some of the money.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Hopefully there aren’t as many smoke and mirrors in this budget compared to the last few which were a total joke.
Arnold and all those idiots around him:
So that is what the face of the destruction of the magnificent economic engine of California looks like.
Arnold and all those idiots around him:
So that is what the face of the destruction of the magnificent economic engine of California looks like.
Remember when “fixes” were something dopers used to seek.
“We are not out of the troubled waters yet,”
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Man, can’t even see the water for all the reeds..
Yeah.. now it’s something that dopes in government seek.
LA Times: Schwarzenegger cuts $500 million more as he signs budget
Figured we should see the spin.
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