Posted on 02/03/2010 12:46:56 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday sent another letter to California's congressional delegation asking for more federal dollars after President Barack Obama released a budget that provided only $1.5 billion of the $6.9 billion in new money that Schwarzenegger wants.
The governor wrote that Obama's budget "represents only a down payment on what we are owed," but described the president's plan as "the first step in a lengthy and complicated process that can result in the fair and equitable treatment of California's taxpayers -- with your help."
Schwarzenegger hopes to use federal dollars to help bridge the state's $19.9 billion deficit.
In his letter, Schwarzenegger asked for more money to pay for housing illegal immigrant inmates. Obama's budget provided $330 million for all states, and California would receive $90.5 million of that State Criminal Alien Assistance Program money. But Schwarzenegger penciled an additional $880 million in SCAAP funds into his budget, none of which the state would receive under Obama's budget.
The governor asked for additional Medicare reimbursements worth about $1 billion that he believes the state is owed for past billing errors. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., and Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Penn., are working on legislation that would provide $700 million of that money. Schwarzenegger also asked for more help in giving states more authority to slash social services after recent court decisions blocked $1.4 billion in cuts.
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Please Please Please give us some more dough. We are poor needy state full of illegal immigrant inmates.
Huggies
aRnie
That’s funny right there.
Schwarzenegger is an idiot.
” Schwarzenegger is an idiot “
...truely, you insult idiots.
Hey Arnold, why don’t you have a yard sale? Does Maria know how to bake cookies?
A few here still think he is just misunderstood and the deck was stacked against him and he means well.
We’ll see who he endorses.
Schwarzenegger also asked for more help in giving states more authority to slash social services after recent court decisions blocked $1.4 billion in cuts.
It is all his fault. He’s a fricking girlyman.
Arnold Kennedy to Bellering Hubris 0bnoxious II
Brother can you spare a dime
No bailout money. It would be the same as throwing the money down a rat hole. The state needs to change the way it spends money and make a more friendly business evironment. They are doing just the opposite with a state sponsored cap-n-tradef and other nonsense legislation.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
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