CA: Human cost of GOP cuts called high (BARF Alert)

Sac Bee ^ | 7/3/03 | John Hill

[NormsRevenge]

When the media marches lock step with the regime... What a hit piece.

Of course, no mention of the word, illegals

[NormsRevenge]

Advocates for state programs say the proposals would make disease more common, delay 100,000 children's entry into kindergarten and force vulnerable people onto the streets.

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Advocates for state programs .. delay kids entries into k-garden .. force vulnerable people into the streets.

Yup.. The old school of journalism that bashed Reagan for shutting down the mental institutions, when , in fact, the previous Gub (Pat Brown) did the deed by signing the bills.

Shame , shame ,, Sac Bee..

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

[DumpsterDiver]

"They're not connecting the lives of people to the dollars."

What damn dollars?

Hey, NormsRevenge, what illegal aliens? I don't see no steekin' illegal aliens!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the post and ping!

You are so right!

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[jim_trent]

I have been reading about the problems with the budget in California. I just got a magazine (Governing 2003 Resource Book) that has a number of measures and rankings for the 50 states. This information was taken from the published state budgets.

1. The total revenue (mostly taxes) raised by the State per capita #6
(note that personal income is ranked #1)

Lets see how that is being spent.

1. The number of public employees/10,000 population #3
2. The average salary of public employees #1
3. The average pension of public employees #13
4. The amount spent on the environment #6
(note that the 4 worst cities for air quality are in California
and the water quality is ranked #34)
5. The amount spent on law enforcement #5
(note that the incarceration rate is ranked #16)
6. The amount of welfare recipients/10,000 population #2
7. The amount spent on health care #11
8. The amount spent on education #22
9. The amount spent on highways #50

It doesn’t look to me like they are getting very much bang for the buck (except for the public employees).

[Cicero]

"They're only looking at the dollars," said Angela Gilliard, a legislative advocate at the Western Center on Law and Poverty. "They're not connecting the lives of people to the dollars."

Angela Gilliard, who has a cushy foundation job, doesn't understand that what she so glibly says cuts both ways. Dollars are neutral instruments of exchange. They aren't good when they're spent but bad when they're earned. She's the one who really fails to connect the lives of people to the dollars. Every dollar of tax money represents somebody's hard work and sweat. Every tax increase means less money for honest working people to buy food, pay rent, and support their families.

[timm22]

"They're only looking at the dollars," said Angela Gilliard, a legislative advocate at the Western Center on Law and Poverty. "They're not connecting the lives of people to the dollars."

Kind of like how leftists never connect the lives of people with dollars when pushing for tax increases?

"There were an awful lot of instances when we were more on the compassionate side of things than the governor," Campbell said.

Ugh. A Republican should never say something like this.

[htjyang]

What about the cost of the liberal welfare state? In funding the welfare state, libs stunted economic growth and caused the lay-offs of countless thousands. That's liberal compassion for you.

As someone once said: Republicans define compassion by how many people they get off social welfare. Democrats define compassion by how many people they can put on social welfare.

[ElkGroveDan]

Hey this is great lets make this #4 in my series, here are the first three:

Republicans Taking Away People's Legs;

Republicans Taking Away Children's Hearing;

Republicans Taking Away Prostate Treatment For Old Men;

[happygrl]

Even though you didn't specify it, I assume that all these rankings are based on dollars per capita.

A few comments:

1. It is shocking that, although CA is #1 in personal income, it is also #2 in the number of welfare recipients per capita. A lot of "anchor" babies are getting welfare, even if their parents "technically" are not. This is part of the reason why CA ranks #3 in public employees per capita. Another reason is the California Teachers' Association which fought Prop 187 because they saw an endless stream of jobs for themselves.

2. Although CA has the four dirtiest cities in terms of air quality, the air quality over the last 30 years has tremendously improved. This is largely as a result of Federal Standards for vehicles and stationary ("smokestack") emissions. There is a tremendous amount of money wasted on fads and gimmickery (I know: I was involved in some of the grant-writing there). Take a look at the SoCal Air Quality Management District's Headquarters and the grants awarded.

3. In a state like CA, it is unconcionable that spending on highways is #50 per capita. This was supposed to be corrected by a proposition which passed (Don't remember the number) which required that taxes generated at the fuel pump were to be reserved for transportation improvements. One would think that this would be the intended purpose anyway, but in CA those monies were not reserved for the roads but spent on non-transportation items. This proposition was to correct this, but I believe that the CA catastrophe has caused the legislature to delegate these monies for other purposes again.

4. Keep in mind that all of the states received windfall tobacco litigation money, which, I believe, precipitated the spending binge by the state. Just as lottery winners often mortgage their futures and then go bankrupt, these monies prompted the states to enact programs which were not viable long term. Those monies should have been spent on capital improvements (AND NOT BONDED), not permanent programs. Incidentally, most of that money is gone, gone, gone....

[ElkGroveDan]

Rat Rhetoric Hits Rock Bottom PING

4th in the series.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Republicans making children sick

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Forgot to put my LOL. Dan I love your series! Thank you!

[kmiller1k]

In the article it states that the age for kindergarten would be raised--does anyone know what the date for attaining age five would be? It is currently December 2, an archaic notion of sending children age four to kindergarten.

[jim_trent]

> Even though you didn't specify it, I assume that all these rankings
> are based on dollars per capita.

In most cases, yes. In other cases, it was based on population (number of employees/population), etc. It was not just raw numbers. On raw numbers, the Gross State Product of California is FAR above any other state in the Union and about 13% of the entire country.

> 3. In a state like CA, it is unconcionable that spending on highways
> is #50 per capita.

We agree there. As a Civil Engineer (structural major), the raiding of highway money by California for STUPID projects is well known and has been published in engineering magazines for years. Unfortunately, although California may be backing away from that, several other states (including my own) are just starting to raid the highway money for other things. A bad omen, I think.

I only listed a few of the measures in the Governing booklet. Most of them were not illuminating or indicative of a trend. However, it struck me about how much they were spending on employees and how little they were spending on infastructure.

[Adder]

FOUR PERCENT CUTS!!! You inhuman bas-tards! Ohhhh the humanity! Ohhhh the poor cheeldrunses!

[Enterprise]

Obviously some of this HAS to be responded to:

"They're only looking at the dollars," said Angela Gilliard, a legislative advocate at the Western Center on Law and Poverty. "They're not connecting the lives of people to the dollars."

So, tripling the Vehicle License Fee doesn’t mean that the RATS are only looking at the dollars? And of course, such a huge fee increase is their way of benignly connecting to the lives of the people who have to PAY those dollars?

"Inaction is unacceptable," Davis said.”

Well, so are you ya Jackass, as is your whole taxing, squandering Jackass party.

”Democrats say the budget already has been cut to the bare bones.”

(Insert picture of a huge stinking pile of bulls..t here)

[Saundra Duffy]

Go, Republicans. If they fold, we're dead.

[ElkGroveDan]

Audio clip of a day in California ofter a 4% cut in social services;