Posted on 02/18/2009 8:20:16 PM PST by Steelfish
Boxer: Budget stalemate could hurt Calif. stimulus
By JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
A monthslong partisan rift over how to solve California's $42 billion budget shortfall could jeopardize the state's piece of the federal economic stimulus package, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said Wednesday.
California is poised to receive more than $26 billion in economic-recovery funding, as well as billions more for future projects, according to figures compiled by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and state Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, both Democrats.
About $11 billion of that could immediately help the state close its budget shortfall — if the state Legislature could agree to a midyear budget fix, said Jed Kolko, associate director of research for the Public Policy Institute of California.
A bipartisan package that legislative leaders negotiated with Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been stalled for days in the state Senate, where it needs one more GOP vote to pass.
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Shut up and sit down!
California is likely to become the GM of the states. Its costs are so much higher than expectations of revenue. Most of the stimulous, it seems, will go to pay welfare costs and for the schools. But I repeat myself.
Great post! Except I wouldn’t have said sit down, something else- unprintable.
“We will be jeopardizing the ability to move quickly and get people to work if we don’t get that one vote,”
Bullpuckey Babs!!
It would be cheaper to give this craphole back to Mexico.
Liberal threat to GOP Gov?
Damn...DemonicRAT!
Box a Rocks talking about “Stimulus” funding to spend, spend, spend. Can’t let anything get in the way of spending.
Hey Boxer - go “stimulate” yourself.
It would be cheaper to give this craphole back to Mexico.
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The problem is how to keep the _hit heads from leaving and going elsewhere .
Just one vote away from more spending.
Those were my first thoughts. You beat me to it.
And for the same reasons. Insane management and union thugs with lots of feather bedding...
True!
Seriously, how do they come up with this stuff?
Speechwriters?
Comedians?
Tarot cards?
...at the kids table.
Liberals always screw up where they are and then want to
move on to a better place...and screw up that place too.
You are right, they did it in NH, VT and Washington to name three. I am sure there are more. Maybe NC is in there also. We are doomed here in PA, maybe the tide will reverse in a hundred years and the Conservatives will come back to the Cradle.
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