Posted on 05/01/2009 2:52:21 PM PDT by Mariner
Dan Walters: What’s Plan B if five ballot measures fail? ShareThis By Dan Walters dwalters@sacbee.com Published: Friday, May. 1, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 3A Prospects are rapidly diminishing for the five ballot measures that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders say they need to keep the state budget from drowning in red ink. So, one might ask, what's Plan B? Rejection of three measures (Propositions 1C, 1D and 1E) would have a direct impact totaling nearly $6 billion on the 2009-10 budget, which was supposedly balanced by Schwarzenegger and legislators in February. Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor has already proclaimed that the 2009-10 plan is $8 billion out of whack, so rejection of those three measures would create a $14 billion hole. But wait, there's still more bad news. Taylor's projection assumes that the state's economy will begin picking up in 2010, but the most recent state economic forecasts don't support that assumption. "There is no measure of economic strength that provides even a glimmer of hope for California's economy in the near term, none," says William Watkins of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Economic Forecast Project. Watkins sees unemployment, now over 11 percent, rising to near 14 percent next year as well as at least two more years of economic decline. State income tax receipts, a critical measure of revenues, appear to be falling short, as well. Through Wednesday, income taxes for the fiscal year were a whopping $8 billion under what the state had received by that time in 2008. Another measure: The California New Car Dealers Association reported new car sales this year running 43 percent under 2008, adding that sales for 2009 could fall below 1 million autos, less than half of sales three years ago.
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Less than a year from now.
1) Stop all spending on services for illegal aliens.
2) Slash the bloated education bureaucracy, top-heavy with do-nothing administrators.
3) Redo the guaranteed state employee and teachers’ pensions to bring them in line with what the rest of us have to settle for.
4) Make the Assembly and State Senate into a part-time legislature, meeting only every other year.
5) Recall the RINO governor Ahnold. Kick him out on his rear end.
6) Recall any politician of either party who votes to raise taxes. Californians already pay the highest taxes in the nation. Enough is enough!
You got my vote.
The children of illegal aliens cost Los Angeles $44 million every month. That might be a good starting point.
I would say fire 25% of all state workers, reduce pensions, cut taxes and eliminate benefits for all non citizens. Then I’d recommend serious cutting after that.
Dan Walters: What’s Plan B if five ballot measures fail?
Sacramento Bee | 5/1/9 | Dan Walters
Posted on 05/01/2009 7:57:47 AM PDT by SmithL
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If those 5 ballot measures fail...
They’ll just have a court rule that the citizens don’t know what’s best for them, or that the citizens have no right to vote on anything that really matters, and pass the measures in to law anyway.
On a more practical note, cutting overhead in education would be great... We must a have a real pantload of administrative overhead... and busybodies that need to find work in the private-sector...
Pay for the political B.S. or the first to go in cuts is essential operations.
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