[CA] State halts payments for welfare, Budget impasse reason for action ...

SF Chronicle ^ | 6-28-02 | Lynda Gledhill, Greg Lucas

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Sacramento -- Gov. Gray Davis' administration said Thursday that the budget impasse, combined with a recent court ruling, has forced it to stop making payments to counties to run programs like welfare and foster care.

As counties scrambled to find ways to continue the programs without the state funding, lawmakers and advocates questioned the administration's tactics, saying the move seemed more political than financial.

[neutrino]

One can only hope that this delightful state of affairs continues for quite some time!

[BADROTOFINGER]

"It's a shame poor families are becoming pawns in this political and budgetary struggle, which is not of their making," said Casey McKeever, a Sacramento lobbyist for the Western Center on Law and Poverty.

Maybe if they were working they could also be paying the confiscatory taxes that everyone else does and , poof, no deficit...JFK

[Overtaxed]

It's a shame poor families are becoming pawns in this political and budgetary struggle

Well that's what happens when you depend on handouts for a living.

[KC_Conspirator]

Its obvious that this will be used against the mean Republicans and Bill Simon in November, since once again the mean spirited Republicans are taking food from the poor. /sarcasm

[FITZ]

Welfare reform signed by Clinton was supposed to start lowering the number of people living on welfare --and shouldn't it have kicked in by now? Welfare is a lifestyle for too many people, far too many babies are conceived and born into welfare, it's time to end it altogether and get these people working.

[daviddennis]

And you thought Davis would be a reliable friend to his core constitutents, of course?

Of course not; they don't have money to donate.

D