CA: Governor pitches $1.2 billion in health, welfare program cuts

Monterey Herald ^ | 1/10/05 | Steve Lawrence - AP

[AD from SpringBay]

Should be the headline: Schwarzenegger's plan would increase overall health and welfare spending by 4.6 percent.

[FairOpinion]

"Forty-seven dollars a month probably means your light bill doesn't get paid and you can't keep milk in the refrigerator when your food stamps run out," he said. "

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Actually it means that they need to cancel their cable TV.

[Antonello]

Actually it means that they need to cancel their cable TV.

That's fine, just don't touch the smokes and beer money.

[Amerigomag]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to balance the next state budget depends heavily on spending cuts in health and welfare programs - Steve Lawrence AP

Mr. Lawrence apparently neglected to read the budget proposal before writing the article. There is a spending increase proposed by Schwarzenegger in the Health and Human Services section of the budget.

[Antonello]

But Sen. Joe Simitian, the Palo Alto Democrat who chairs the Senate Human Services Committee, said Schwarzenegger's plan would be a "real pop in the snout to people of modest means. It's not a budget I can support."....It costs more to live in California, he said....The administration should be proposing a combination of spending cuts and tax increases to eliminate the state's red ink....

Michael Herald, a lobbyist for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, an advocacy group for the poor, also said the governor should be proposing tax increases

Bright bulbs like Simitian and Herald are the reason 100's of thousands (myself included) of former California taxpayers now reside in other states. I doubt it will ever dawn on them that their tax-base is dissolving, leaving them with a black hole of society-dependant citizens that will continue to be an ever larger percentage of the population at large.

Good luck to all you souls that still remain in the once Golden State.

[Antonello]

Mr. Lawrence apparently neglected to read the budget proposal before writing the article. There is a spending increase proposed by Schwarzenegger in the Health and Human Services section of the budget.

To a California liberal, a reduction in a future spending increase is a spending cut. Go figure that their state is sinking in a sea of red ink.

[tubebender]

He had better take that $26,000,000.00 he has raised plus another $26,000,000.00 and do some serious promoting for his programs. The Dims have already started their stirring of the cauldron...

[patton]

I don't understand. I read that his new budget was 111 $B, up from 105 $B.

What was cut?

[tubebender]

Here is this tidbit... Governor proposes $112 Billion Budget

[Prime Choice]

Once again, a smaller increase is being pitched as "budget cuts."

Bah. Wake me up when real changes take place in Sacramento.

[WOSG]

"Schwarzenegger's plan would increase overall health and welfare spending by 4.6 percent."

Dang, the way the media was reporting I was salivating at the profiles in courage for the 'real deep cuts'.

[WOSG]

"you can't keep milk in the refrigerator when your food stamps run out," he said. "

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Then drink it! Geez.

[Lancey Howard]

Last year's budget was $105 billion.
So, with the cuts, what is the amount of this year's budget?
I didn't see the figure mentioned in the article.

[LibertarianInExile]

"you can't keep milk in the refrigerator when your food stamps run out," he said."

Really? WTF do food stamps have to do with your refrigerator running, unless you're buying milk instead of paying the electric bill? :)

[calcowgirl]

Wake me up when real changes take place in Sacramento.

A RIP Van Winkle impersonation, perhaps?

[goldstategop]

I pay $230! a month in health insurance premiums. Sounds like these folks are getting a really good deal. Tons better than the one I have. Its amazing to see Democrats whine over much ado about nothing.

[goldstategop]

Have these people ever heard of a job? What with the economy on the rebound they shouldn't be even getting food stamps and other stuff us middle class folks are ineligible for.

[calcowgirl]

Last year's budget was $105 billion.
So, with the cuts, what is the amount of this year's budget?
I didn't see the figure mentioned in the article.

Schwarzenegger's state budget takes hard line on California spending-releases $111.7 billion budget

[goldstategop]

There's a 4% percent increase in overall state spending that's not enough for the Lefties here. We should make real cuts but to liberals even a modest spending hike amounts to a cut. That's how Orwellian Sacspeak has gotten.