Posted on 07/12/2009 5:28:29 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Education funding, the biggest part of California's budget, remains the largest sticking point for negotiators trying to find resolution before banks stop accepting the state's IOUs.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders reported steady progress on California's $26.3 billion budget mess and raised the prospect of a resolution in the coming week.
Negotiators were scheduled to resume closed-door meetings Sunday at the Capitol following two days of talks. They were expected to continue discussing the governor's social service reform proposals, but still need to sort out public education funding, which is the largest component of general fund spending.
"I would say we're getting very close to a general framework, but there are still outlying questions," state Assembly Minority Leader Sam Blakeslee, a San Luis Obispo Republican, said after emerging from a closed-door meeting between lawmakers and Schwarzenegger on Saturday.
The possibility of a breakthrough in resolving California's mammoth budget shortfall comes a week after the state began issuing IOUs to thousands of vendors as a cash-saving move. State workers also have begun taking three days off a month without pay, cutting the salaries of more than 200,000 government employees by 14 percent.
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No cuts needed for education.
No cuts needed for elderly or care for the infirm.
Just use prop 187 and cut all aide to illegals and thier shall be a surplus.
Californium has never gad issue with violating federal law before.
Use prop 187!
Let them!
But we aren’t going to bail them out!
Gee, here’s a novel idea Arnold. How about showing proof of citizenship before you get any taxpayer provided benefits????
Gee, Arnold, do you that may save a few bucks???
Whatever happens is just interim stuff.
We be waiting for Bama to spread some shug around the Golden State to make it all bettah.
You can't be serious. Govt employee pensions alone are enough to drive California into bankruptcy.
Don’t think anything is different. The useless Republicans will give in to communism. You can have all of the Tea Parties, etc. & the scum that you keep voting for will fold against YOU TAXPAYERS. These scum ALWAYS have a shill in the backroom to be the fall guy but it will ALWAYS be against the taxpayer. Have fun & absolutely give these scum credibility by running to the voting booths like the little sheeple you all are & get the same results. BAAAAH BAAAAH!
Go to the SEIU website and see the rougue’s gallery that’s driving this state in to bankrupcty.
Smoke and mirrors.
Maybe some Republicans went coward and agreed to tax hikes.
And why not? They’re dead in that place anyway, so they may as well finish themselves off.
That's the only way that it can happen.
This is all a result of politicians (overwhelmingly Dems) using current and future taxpayer money to buy the votes of special-interest constituencies, mostly government workers, illegals and freeloaders.
Amen! Cut the pensions across the board by 14% and the budget will be balanced. Retirees can squeak by on $72,000 per year instead of $90,000.
Speaking about the California budget:
“You have to keep your eye on how the overall economy is going and not just whether ends meet in the current year. It’s a totally foreign concept in the Democratic Party; they just think the economy happens.”
— Former California Governor Gray Davis
“No cuts needed for elderly or care for the infirm.”
Those should be eliminated!
They have had a lifetime to prepare for old age, if they didn’t too damn bad!
BTW, i’m 72.
Tell me that they won’t end up with the current Republican Assembly and Senate leaders stabbing us in the back with a huge tax increase like the past two did. Puleeze. But I think the chances are better than even that will be the outcome. It’s California after all.
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