[AppyPappy]

Ever notice that a cut in Welfare is a "slash" but a cut in the military is a "scaleback"?

[Kermit]

This is a strong argument against government involvement in healthcare. It's putting all of your eggs in one basket. When that basket has a problem, the disruption and chaos created is far above the situation, if you had no government involvement. The LA County Health system has been in crisis for at least a decade.

[Dan(9698)]

You have to just admire what Davis did for the California budget.

An aircraft carrier costs under five billion dollars. Other ships are less. With the large change from a huge surplus to a large deficit would buy one of the largest fleets of warships in the world. (well over 100 billion dollars).

[monkeyshine]

How do you tell people with no health insurance, no child care or transportation

First of all, if they have no health insurance they go to the public clinic you have set up (which is losing $800 million). You have given them no incentive to get insurance by offering them free care.

Second, What does child care have to do with it? Bring the kid along.

And transportation? This city is riddled with busses. Tell them to take the bus, as people do in most cities in the world. By the way, if the county stopped subsidising the busses, and made people pay the real cost of riding it, maybe there would be enough money to keep these clinics open. All the more reason why the county should privatize the bus system.