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Schwarzenegger signs budget fixes
Sacramento Bee ^ | 7/28/9 | Amy Chance

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: budget; budgetcrisis; calbudgetcrisis; goldenstate; schwarzenegger; yourtaxdollarsatwork

1 posted on 07/28/2009 12:50:53 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Hopefully there aren’t as many smoke and mirrors in this budget compared to the last few which were a total joke.


2 posted on 07/28/2009 12:56:55 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SmithL

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.


3 posted on 07/28/2009 12:57:10 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: SmithL

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.


4 posted on 07/28/2009 12:57:18 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: SmithL

Remember when “fixes” were something dopers used to seek.


5 posted on 07/28/2009 12:58:30 PM PDT by RexBeach
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To: SmithL

“We are not out of the troubled waters yet,”

Man, can’t even see the water for all the reeds..


6 posted on 07/28/2009 1:02:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: RexBeach

Yeah.. now it’s something that dopes in government seek.


7 posted on 07/28/2009 1:05:56 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: SmithL
LATimes Headline and article...I posted it:

LA Times: Schwarzenegger cuts $500 million more as he signs budget

Figured we should see the spin.

8 posted on 07/28/2009 3:00:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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