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Governor plans to completely eliminate welfare for families
LA Times ^ | 5/21/09 | Eric Bailey

Posted on 05/22/2009 11:54:09 AM PDT by Kartographer

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to completely eliminate the state’s welfare program for families, medical insurance for low-income children and Cal Grants cash assistance to college and university students.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: buget; calbudget; calwelfare; gimmicks; scaretactics; schwarzenegger; welfare
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To: Kartographer
The reality of limited resources and unlimited demand is a bitch, isn't it Ahnold?
21 posted on 05/22/2009 12:03:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: reegs
What this will do is send Ahnold's indigent to other states. Brilliant move for the state of CA--let the rest of the states take care of them.

Perhaps other states will follow suit when they get an influx of the "poor" from CA, and follow Ahnold's lead.

Maybe then we can see some real "change" in this country.

22 posted on 05/22/2009 12:05:41 PM PDT by basil ( It's time to eliminate all "Gun Free Zones")
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To: Kartographer

This was reported in the latimes today.
Further down it said this would save kalifornia 1.4 b of a 24 b dollar deficit. It is going to be more interesting.
I teach high school in los angeles and the class size is going from 24-1 to 34 for 9th and tenth graders and 45 for 11th and 12th.
This was decided before most understood how how the defcit will be.
Things are going to get way more interesting.


23 posted on 05/22/2009 12:07:04 PM PDT by genghis
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To: goldi

Are you a fan of “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”?


24 posted on 05/22/2009 12:07:23 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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To: stevie_d_64

Hey, a reverse Grapes of Wrath!


25 posted on 05/22/2009 12:08:13 PM PDT by thecabal (Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
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To: VanDeKoik
Does he want a cookie?
LOL.
26 posted on 05/22/2009 12:08:29 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: BGHater; swarthyguy

A federal bailout of Kalifornia should be a line in the sand.


27 posted on 05/22/2009 12:09:11 PM PDT by KeyesPlease
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To: Kartographer

While he’s at it, he should kill the embryonic stem cell research program, the “combating global warming” projgram, the high-speed train between LA and Frisco, and a couple dozen more cockamamie state programs initiated under his regime. We’d save so many billions everybody in the state could get a tax refund.


28 posted on 05/22/2009 12:11:44 PM PDT by Argus (We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
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To: swarthyguy
Nope, just a gambit to compel FedZilla to bail out Kakafornia.

You nailed it. This is little Ahnuld threatening to hold his breath until Obomba or the citizenry relents and guarantees more borrowing or pays more taxes. No way he would take free money away from the leaches when he can just threaten the taxpayers. This is calculated to get the greatest reaction in the shortest amount of time, so that he can call an emergency vote to raise the taxes he wants.

If only Ahnuld would have the stones to actually do what he threatens.

29 posted on 05/22/2009 12:11:55 PM PDT by GulchBound (Who owns you?)
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To: Kartographer

It would be a hell of a note if the CA taxusers had to move out instead of the taxpayers.


30 posted on 05/22/2009 12:12:08 PM PDT by umgud (Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
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To: VanDeKoik
made you a cookie
31 posted on 05/22/2009 12:12:15 PM PDT by thecabal (Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
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To: Kartographer

Very cool. He has nothing to lose by suggesting this, as he’s out of here next year. He should go out in a blaze of glory.


32 posted on 05/22/2009 12:12:39 PM PDT by nomoremods
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To: Talisker

No program for illegal aliens, however, will be touched.
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LOL

My first thought ...

:)


33 posted on 05/22/2009 12:12:48 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: thecabal

Scary huh???


34 posted on 05/22/2009 12:13:31 PM PDT by stevie_d_64
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To: GulchBound

>>greatest reaction in the shortest amount of time

Yup, the usual threats of firing teachers, firemen and cops didn’t work.

So, hit the liberal hot buttons, compel FedZilla to act to save Kakafornia from bankruptcy.


35 posted on 05/22/2009 12:14:55 PM PDT by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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To: reegs
“Arnold Shrugs” - Well done!
36 posted on 05/22/2009 12:15:16 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find!)
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To: Kartographer

So what’s Ahnolt planning to do, confiscate Oprahs billions, and set up a welfare trust fund from that?

I’d love to see Micheal Moores bank accounts confiscated too, along with Streisands, and all those other leftwing holliwierdo’s.


37 posted on 05/22/2009 12:15:54 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Kartographer

It would be a move in the right direction, but Ahnold picked this knowing full well that there will be riots in the streets before the leeches will ever give up their free checks. When a big enough ruckus is raised, he’ll crawfish and reiterate the need to raise more taxes.


38 posted on 05/22/2009 12:16:24 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (I'm all for cap & trade. I want to cap government's power and trade it for a conservative one.)
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To: Kartographer
My guess is that the intended recipients only see 20% of the money budgeted for their aid. The other 80% goes to the political class that hands out the money, performs supposed studies on the effectiveness the programs, advertises for new recipients, and an assortment of empire builders. Off with their heads!

ML/NJ

39 posted on 05/22/2009 12:22:02 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Kartographer

LOL.
A reverse “Beverly Hillbillies”

Well let me tell you a story about a man named Jed
Welfare recipient and dependent on the Fed
Then one day, the votes came from the polls:
No more recipients on the public dole

California public said “Get away from there”
“Go find a job” and “No more free healthcare”
So Jed grew up and learned resonsibiliteee
Found himslef a job in Memphis Tennesee


40 posted on 05/22/2009 12:26:27 PM PDT by kidd (Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
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