declaring a fiscal emergency is merely a tactic in order to gain enough public support to raise taxes on the people.
cutting spending never occurs to these folk.
I don’t get this. In early September, I think it was, they finally agreed on a balanced budget for the fiscal year of July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. The budget was allegedly balanced at that time up through next June. Then within a couple of weeks of that budget being approved, all this news about how the budget is out of control and the state running out of money came out.
What the heck? Was the budget really balanced to start with in September? Something doesn’t add up. Pardon the pun, that things don’t add up, since we’re talking about the budget numbers here.
I'm not disagreeing, but the "fiscal emergency" process is also the beginning of a procedure laid out in Prop 58 (a constitutional amendment passed in March 2004), which gives authority to make mid-year spending cuts. Arnie sold it to the public as the "California Balanced Budget Act" to justify his first major act in office of floating $15 billion in bonds to pay day to day operating expenses of state government.
cutting spending never occurs to these folk.
Yep. Despite the authority to make cuts, I doubt we'll see anything other than pleas to Washington for a bailout and Arnold dissing pubbies for not going along with his tax increases (along with a lot of whining from the leftist orgs on why we can't cut their favorite programs.)