[California] GOP Budget Would Slash Welfare (Dem Interest Groups Howling Alert)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 07/25/2007 | Evan Halper And Jordan Rau

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The Republicans will present their proposed state budget before the full Senate today. It would cut numerous programs Democrats hold dear, including the elimination of an institute for labor studies at the University of California. The budget plan includes nearly $1 billion in spending reductions beyond those in the bipartisan plan approved by the Assembly on Friday.

Senate Republican Leader Dick Ackerman (R-Irvine) made public only a few of the cuts his caucus would propose.

The linchpin of the plan, Ackerman said, is a $324-million cut in the state's welfare program. The cut was initially proposed by the governor in January, but Schwarzenegger had not been aggressively pushing for its inclusion in the spending plan adopted by the Legislature.

The proposal is aimed at families that do not meet minimum work requirements in the state's CalWORKS program, as well as families that have been receiving benefits for more than five years. It would eliminate safety net cash grants that are intended to keep children whose parents do not meet work requirements from becoming homeless. Children whose parents are in the country illegally also could lose assistance under the Republican plan.

[goldstategop]

The CAGOP presented its budget plan. The Dem interest groups are already howling. Less spending will be depicted as "cuts." Watch for the demagoguery to be unleashed full force upon GOP moderates to pressure them to vote for bigger spending as usual.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

How about a mandatory cap on total welfare benefits that is below the benefits paid to entry-level military workers, the most underappreciated and underpaid PATRIOT WORKERS we have?!?

[cricket]

Why don’t they change California ‘welfare’ to the ‘Hollywood Project’. Let these people put their own money, where their mouths are.

[nyyankeefan]

[California] GOP Budget Would Slash Welfare (Dem Interest Groups Howling Alert)

SO.....what is the problem????????

[wastedyears]

How about before Congress votes for a 24% increase of their salary, they vote for 3.5% increase for the military?

If they don’t agree to that, we threaten to vote them out of office in a landslide. If they don’t believe us, then tell them we have their escapes covered.

[ElkGroveDan]

Stay tuned. They are surely warming up the buses now. By the end of the week the halls of the Capitol will be crammed with overweight people wearing identical T-shirts and there will be shrill young women with megaphones screaming out on the Capitol South lawn. "WHAT DO WE WANT.....?!!!" " WHEN DO WE WANT IT?!!!!....."

Been there, done that — over and over and over again.

[PEACE ENFORCER]

“It would eliminate safety net cash grants that are intended to keep children whose parents do not meet work requirements from becoming homeless.”
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WTF is this..?

[ronnie raygun]

Oh no! the physically able will have to earn a living! But how? They can’t survive on minimum wage. Ah, leave it up to the liberal progressive income redistribution fairies, they know how to get the job done. Hold on to your wallets people! How about we ask the BIG MOUTHS in Hollywood who are so quick to use our money while they sit in thier mansions and claim to be compassionate for the downtrodden. Just another bunch of John Edwards HYPOCRITES!

[Amerigomag]

Well Mr. Walters, you wanted it. Now ya got it. What’s the next bitch?

[SierraWasp]

Hay! They're only doin what works, cause they sure don't/won't!!!

So run out there on the lawn with a bull-horn of you're own and call 'em all "DON'T/WON'TS" for the WaspMan, ok? (please?)(whine...)

It's such a cryptic slam it'll pass for PC!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!

[SierraWasp]

What Mr. Walters are you talkin about? Dan didn’t write this thang!!!

[Fledermaus]

Yep...the libs put out a budget or want spending increased by 14% and only getting 9% and it’s called “a cut”. And the gullible idiots buy it.

Bring back the IQ test to vote!

[MonicaG]

Excellent idea!

[MonicaG]

Yeah, the purple-shirted “solidarity” conformists, begging for Communism instead of doing whatever it is they are supposed to be doing at their state jobs. I’ve seen it up close, too.

[Amerigomag]

With a stalemate in the Senate, Democrats are demanding that Republicans reveal the specific spending cuts they want to reduce the operating deficit to zero -- and that's not unreasonable. But by the same token, the governor and Democrats who want the current version enacted should be telling us how, in heaven's name, they would balance the budget without more spending cuts. If they want new taxes, they should say so.