Posted on 08/03/2011 8:58:37 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
The federal government may have staved off the imminent threat of default Tuesday when President Barack Obama signed a bitterly fought budget deal, but the woes and uncertainty for states have just begun.
In California, some of the most likely cuts include nutritional programs for low-income women and children, the federal portion of the controversial high-speed rail project, clean drinking water programs, and subsidies for farmers.
Also potentially at risk are federally funded university research projects and military bases, policy-watchers said Tuesday after hastily reviewing the plan to cut national spending by $2.1 trillion over 10 years. None of the cuts have been specified; Congress will decide the first round of $917 billion in the coming months, and a deficit-reduction committee will take a second swipe at the budget later this year.
In an interview Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown excoriated Republicans for their "obsessional" opposition to taxes and warned that because the congressional debt limit agreement lacks additional stimulus funds, "the economy will creep along instead of roaring back."
How much pain will be felt at the state level is difficult to gauge, Brown said, but at stake are hundreds of billions of dollars in federal health programs, education, highways and other vital funds.
"The federal government has to balance its books, and it's got to make tough decisions," but "you've got to have revenue as well as Advertisement cuts," Brown said, referring to the lack of new taxes in the budget deal.
He argued that U.S. lawmakers "should be deferring the cuts by putting them into law and investing in jobs, whether in Civilian Conservation Corps or high-speed rail or bridges."
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Hey Moonbeam,, go fish.
What’s the problem?
California is flat broke and Moonbeam is berating the federal government for trying to balance its books? He needs to go look in the mirror. The GOP agreed to a deal it wasn’t completely happy with to turn this country’s course around. No one on our side says this is the end of it. Its only a start and a lot of hard work remains to be done before America is finally out of the woods!
Suffer baby, without even a pacifier to suck on!!!
Funny, it seems this article is written in a negative tone but I find it to be fantastic news.
“In California, some of the most likely cuts include nutritional programs for low-income women and children”
Illegal aliens and their anchor babies will be hardest hit. Boo hoo.
“Brown said, but at stake are hundreds of billions of dollars in federal health programs, education, highways and other vital funds.”
But state union workers will not feel any pain.
Clown should be recalled.
All those good cuts are just “potential”.
And none of this would be a concern if the state had it’s financial affairs in order.
Instead, it’s the wailing of spoiled brat who wastes their money on crap and cries to momma to bail them out.
Go to hell Brown and take the other incompetent pieces of garbage in Sacramento and CA with you.
The left (er, now “progressives”) love to scold the rest of us about “sustainability”. It comes as no surprise that none of their favorite government projects are sustainable from an economic standpoint. They all require money to be seized from some other source for “vital funding”. But as Margaret Thatcher said, socialism works until they run out of other people’s money.
It is a good idea that some of these projects don’t survive close analysis. Like the quit said by pilots: if it doesn’t run well on the ground, it won’t run any better when it gets in the air. If a high speed rail project doesn’t “pencil out” before it is started, it sure won’t pencil out when ridership is not as high as was projected.
Obama had specifically put High Speed Rail off-limits for any budget cutting
I doubt the CA high speed rail project could get more dysfunctional. It needs to die.
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