California Officials Face Unprecedented Budget Gap

The New York Times ^ | May 12, 2002 | JAMES STERNGOLD

[Mind-numbed Robot]

What the local governments should have been doing is either saving the money or cutting taxes instead of making long term obligations based upon short term tax revenue increases.

I agree with you completely and the same thing occurred to me while reading the article.

[heleny]

government spending here increased 37%
I keep seeing that 37% increase here. If the budget is $80 Billion, as the article states, then spending used to be
$80B/1.37 = $58.4B.

from the article: deficit of $20 billion to $25 billion for the current fiscal year
When I don't have enough money, I should cut my spending to match my resources.
$80B - ($20B to $25B) = $55B to $60B.

I'm being simplistic, but if spending were reduced to the pre-Davis levels, the budget deficit would be very small.

[heleny]

politicians always scare people by saying the police and fire services will be cut.

Good observation! I hope the policemen and firemen react to this disrespect by voting the liberals out of office.

[daviddennis]

Doesn't the state of Texas have a similar illegal alien population explosion?

And if so, why are they doing better than California?

D

[Standing Wolf]

It's the socialism, the massive governmental irresponsibility, and the millions upon millions of illegal aliens. I'm leaving the People's Republic of California this year to return to the United States.

[Southack]

U.S. Census Figures for 2000 - Age/Race in California

[Southack]

Number of Hispanics in California (2000 Census): 10,966,556
Number of Whites in California (2000 Census): 15,816,790
All other: ~~7 million

[medved]

If we're gonna give California to Mexico we ought to simply do it and have done with it. There's no way that a Mexican state should be controlling 20% of the electoral votes necessary to elect an American president. The present situation amounts to allowing the lefties to have their cake and eat it at the same time.

[A Navy Vet]

"Los Angeles County, which has nearly 10 million people, is particularly concerned about potential cuts in the money it receives for its extensive health programs, which focus on the burgeoning immigrant community. While poor and working class immigrants flooded into the state, the wealthiest residents simply grew wealthier, laying the groundwork for the current problem [and paid for the immigrant's services]"

Why is it I never see the open borders crowd around these threads that clearly show the detriment of runaway immigration?

[Joe Hadenuf]

If we're gonna give California to Mexico we ought to simply do it and have done with it.

Then you better be prepared to give the entire country away.

Illegal Aliens Are Coming To A Neighborhood Near You At 500 MPH.

3/31/02 11:41 AM

Last week, in just two days, 140 illegal aliens were arrested at Los Angeles International Airport, at just one of eight terminals!

All were heading out of California, to your neighborhood.

"More than 140 illegal immigrants have been arrested at LAX this week as part of a federal crackdown on smugglers using the airport as a transshipment point for illegal immigrants being funneled to destinations throughout the U.S., officials said Wednesday."

"The operation, which began Monday in Terminal 1, netted 147 illegal immigrants in its first two days, officials said. All but two were from Mexico. Most were headed to the East Coast".

Can you imagine, this was in just two days , at just one terminal! And these are just the ones that got caught! Getting the picture?

I would estimate that there are probably 2000 to 3000 a day, or more, that are heading to all points of this country, from LAX ALONE! Think of all the other points of entry, all the other airports, bus stations, trains, and our highways that lead to your town.

Think of how many are headed out to your direction, in just one year. If this isn't enough to grab ones attention, nothing will.

The INS and the government have know for years that LAX, SF, San Diego, Phoenix, and Airports in Houston, Dallas and several other airports are distrubution points for millions upon millions of illegal aliens.

They are headed to the east coast, fly over country and your hometown.

We hope you like illegal aliens as much as your government does, as their on approach for landing at your local airport as you read this.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Worth repeating>

More than 140 illegal immigrants have been arrested at LAX this week as part of a federal crackdown on smugglers using the airport as a transshipment point for illegal immigrants being funneled to destinations throughout the U.S., officials said Wednesday."

[junta]

Yours is an excellent post so I am suprised it is still here since ideology or some false pretense of ideology means more than people and any sense of humanity in any proportion to what matters to most people (The people we know tend to be the ones we love the most not some infinite sounding gesture of "love the world") What I really mean to say is if the Left ie; Democrats lose control of their radical elements in Ca. then the entire country is in trouble. I suspect our "leaders" shall do what they can to keep the dollars flowing to the Mexican community leadership, and if they don't things could get tense since the media in this country has propagated the story of "Hispanic power" uber alles.

[breakem]

"It's not a crisis," said Tim Gage, director of the Department of Finance. "It's a significant challenge.

Appointed by the gov

[sunshine state]

An I-agree-with-you bump.

[Doe Eyes]

Why the big surprise, the state is run by free spending demacrooks at all levels, they know that they don't have to behave responsibly because all of the rest of the country will be there to bail them out again when things get tough.

Thank God we have Republicans keeping the lid on Federal spending.

[conserve-it]

"Los Angeles County, which has nearly 10 million people, is particularly concerned about potential cuts in the money it receives for its extensive health programs, which focus on the burgeoning immigrant community."

Burgeoning immigrant community MY ASS!!!