Posted on 12/23/2009 6:49:58 PM PST by reaganaut1
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken advantage of the holiday lull before the next state budget storm to serve notice on the federal government that he will come looking for billions more in aid.
Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, also hinted that he might extend furloughs for state workers beyond next summer and revive a contentious plan to allow oil drilling off the Santa Barbara County coast. Budget advisers have also discussed paring corporate tax breaks that Republican lawmakers have insisted on.
The governor is expected to unveil a proposal to right the state’s dismal finances in early January. But pieces of the plan are trickling out, including a threat to severely crimp or eliminate the state’s welfare program and services to disabled and elderly residents if the federal government does not come through with help.
Administration officials, in preliminary discussions with state lawmakers and other Sacramento officials on how to close a projected $20.7 billion deficit, were pledging to push hard for as much as $8 billion from the federal government.
In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, Mr. Schwarzenegger focused much of his attention on recouping some of the costs of the pending health care overhaul.
He said the bills in Congress would cost California $4 billion to $5 billion. California, he said, suffers from federal reimbursement and eligibility rules that place residents in welfare and health programs administered by the state but without enough money from the federal government to cover them.
Mr. Schwarzenegger said he counted himself a supporter of the effort to revamp health care, but, he wrote, “if Congress fails to address the existing unfunded mandates and adds yet another layer, federal health care reform could collapse the very safety net system it seeks to expand.”
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Arni is a disappointment, period!
Why doesn’t he ask the UN
Whats the betting for when California gets a Federal bailout? Can it also get a Mexican bailout? Or does California bailout Mexico every day of the year?
Just assert your state’s independence, Arnold. Make a place for yourself in the history books.
Use left wing rhetorical so that they could understand. So poor ppl are being asked to subside rich states?
Bitte, just go back to Osterreich and stay there....and take Sacramento with you.
Sorri, Arni...we’re plum out....take care of yourself...that’s what REAL REPUBLICAN’s DO!
“Paring back corporate tax breaks?”. The very thing that might attract jobs and business while the state is sucking wind?
Hell Arnold made that argument himself in the recall election. What on earth happens to these people?
I just try and imagine what would be the reaction of the rest of the country if Boxer or Feinstein had held out until a deal was made for the rest of the country to pick up the increased Medicare for all of California.
The outrage would have been unbelievable, but not for Nebraska or Louisiana.
1) Cut spending
2) Cut spending
3) Cut spending
Any politician who thinks that some other method is worth two second thought, is a complete idiot.
I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW NAIVE I STILL AM AT TIMES CONSIDERING WHAT A CYNIC I AM.
When Arnie gave Obammie the Commie an “A” the other day, I thought, “What the Eff, Arnie?
NOW IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE. HE WAS BEING AN A-Kisser BECAUSE HE WANTS SOME OF YOUR TAX MONEY AND MINE!!!!
Resign Gub, Just resign.
Oh, wait, that’s right, we don’t have a Lt Gub, huh?
all the better. Resign now!
Go for the offshore drilling ahhnold. You should have done that a long time ago. Gaia loves to be drilled, over and over and over.
What we need in CA is fewer legislators, less money for them to spend, and a Governor who governs in the very mechanical engineering sense of the word.
In fact, a clean sweep up in Sacto would help considerably. The could all leave, chambers could be empty for six months, and the next group could serve for six weeks and then go home.
[”...federal health care reform could collapse the very safety net system it seeks to expand.”]
Uh...DUH! I believe this is one of the things that MOST Republicans were screaming about concerning this POS legislation!
One of the main reasons the CBO has scored this crap as almost “deficit neutral” (LIE) is because a very large amount of the burden that used to be on the Feds is now being shifted to the states!
Oh, wait a minute he has done that verbally already.
Let him ask God, he may learn something...
It could be an opportunity to recast the federal-state relationship.
You RINO loser. Drill your crummy state for oil, cut down some of your lousy trees, stop supporting crummy illegal ALIENS and so forth. Also, this may be out of your thinking range: STOP SPENDING! Feh! RINO loser.
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