Hello Roosts.....
Posted on 07/01/2009 1:23:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal emergency to address California's deficit and has ordered state offices closed three days a month to save cash.
The Legislature will have 45 days to send him a plan to balance the state's budget, which ended the fiscal year with a $24.3 billion deficit. The shortfall is expected to grow by $7 billion because the Legislature did not enact several stopgap measures Tuesday.
If lawmakers fail to act within the 45 days, they cannot adjourn or act on other bills until they solve the crisis.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Please explain to me something. I’m constantly told by people I personally know and talk to (including members of this site) that California is actually pretty conservative.
If this is the case how were liberal democrats able to take over the government?
Don’t think I’m being a smart-a$$ asking this question, I am just trying to understand how a state, with such large conservative areas was able to be hijacked by only a few areas of the state.
A pay cut for state employees? NO. They are simply not working as many days. So not paying someone when he is not working is called a pay cut! Now that is typical political doublespeak.
Same as any state.
It’s conservative if you look at it by square miles of land area. But it’s flaming liberal if you count population.
Remind me: how many state workers have actually been laid off at this point?
Feds could seize Calif. parks if closed by budget (threaten to seize 6 state parks if closed)
Typical of our dictator-in-chief. Just confiscate anything you can gets your hands on. But if these parks were not profitable, why were they open in the first place? And if they were profitable, why are they being closed? Guess I just don’t think like a politician.
A poll of Business Journal readers probably isn't a representative sample. I'd bet that a poll of the California population as a whole would put put the blame on Bush. Not for any logical reason, but just out of habit.
Hello Roosts.....
Please know my comments in post 13 were directed at the state legislatures and cronism related liberals. I love Ca. and am mad as hades at those destroying it. The conservatives in Ca. and Freepers have my utmost respect...and condolences....
3 days a month eh? What a joke.
2 days a week might amount to something...and the other three days a week only open for 4 hours. Close all the parks. Turn off every other street light. Cut all state funding to universities. No more benefits to illegals.
Is that Manuel from Fawlty Towers?
Si......
Be mindful that many of those MORONS were/are active subscribers on FreeRepublic. Most have since extracted their heads from their posteriors. Some, however, went down swinging during the Great Purge.
Cut every state agency budget by 5 percent. Do it again.
A topographic Map of CA:
Please note that running down the middle we have the vast San Joaquin valley also known as the Great Basin.
For reference for my southern and midwestern friends - you drive end to end in TN in less time than it takes to run I-5 from the northern end of the basin to the Grapevine (southern tip of the GB - from the nickname given to the twisting pass through the southern mountain range).
The mountainous country in the northeast of CA, and most of the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada Range (the mountain range on the east side of CA) are fairly reliably conservative. However, we do not account for the population mass of the state. LA and SF are so impacted that 2 cities (3 if you count the SJ area separate from SF) literally offset the rest of the state in terms of elected representation at both the state and federal levels
I hope this helps. Most people either believe what they see on TV about Calif (shame on you if you believe without question either Hollywood or the NY news cartels), or they don't understand just how large the state really is.
They are actually proposing 8% across the board - but, as usual, there are union contracts and legislatively guaranteed bureaucrat salaries to renegotiate.
Even the compensation commission ordered pay and benefits cuts don’t take effect until Jan 1, 2010 (some not until 2011 !) and the legislature has done NOTHING to offer to make these cuts sooner. That makes bargaining more difficult - when the people who caused most of the problem aren’t willing to tighten their own belts while asking people making $15 an hour to take a pay cut - the unions are, shall we say, skeptical.
Living in SW Washington makes me very glad that I have Oregon between me and Kally-fornea. If necessary, we can always blow the freeway bridges to keep the diaspora out of California on the South bank of the Columbia River...
Yes! They will never be able to solve it! Then only the state bureaucrats will be able to make rules! At which point the state will no longer be a republic. Is this what they want?
My friends in NYC seem to assune I’m close to L.A. since I live in CA. I usually respond with, “I’m about as close to Los Angeles as you are to North Carolina. Plus it’s about a five hour drive for me to get to the Oregon border.”
I am sure the word meant to be typed was cue! On the other hand, que means to stand in line, maybe that is what was meant!
So here we are, no budget, gee, did anyone notice any State Offices closed today? Would anyone notice if a State Office closed? So......let them close.
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