[SmithL]

Republicans have no role whatsoever in the budget anymore. It belongs to the Rats. Nevertheless, there will be a budget, it will be on-time, and it will be nothing but smoke-and-mirrors.

[oldbrowser]

Democratic lawmakers have vowed all spring to fight spending cuts to programs that serve the poorest Californians

Okay, lets leave the poorest alone and take some of the fat from the lardash bureaucracy.

[JPG]

It's a new day with the same old tired movie. When CA gets serious about out-of-control spending on public union bennies, illegals and rat-pork, then things will improve. Otherwise, nothing will change. NOTHING.

[bopdowah]

I might be wrong, but seems to me if you slash benefits for the poorest, they would just go back across the border, in which case - problem solved!

I don’t think our politicos even know much about whom they refer to as “the poor”, which are always spoken of in the abstract, used to produce guilt, and shamelessly exploited to extract more money from taxpayers.

When I was a kid, the churches and wealthy society ladies did the heavy lifting when it came to charity. It’s our individual responsibility to take care of our own and the strangers we meet that are in want. That way there’s some accountability on the part of the beneficiary and the givers do not have a gun to their head while the government steals from them.

[Iron Munro]

Seeeking ways to close the state's $15.7 billion budget gap?

And then there is the $68 billion bullet train project to finance.....