Posted on 05/06/2012 9:15:47 AM PDT by SmithL
Bill Clinton feels Gov. Jerry Brown's pain.
"I know what he's going through out here," said the former president after hearing Brown's litany of budget woes delivered at a conference of Bay Area business executives and public officials last week.
"I said, 'How you doing, Jerry?' He said, 'This is tough.' I said, 'Yes, but I think you're doing the right thing. You have to live by the laws of economics and the money you've got.' "
If it's any consolation, Clinton added, "the dilemmas that the governor and the Legislature, and the people who will soon vote on the budgetary changes, are facing are actually a microcosm - and a very big microcosm - of what the country is going through, and indeed what people are facing throughout the world."
One audience member not consoled was San Francisco Superior Court Presiding Judge Katherine Feinstein. Brown had casually let it be known that in his revised budget, to be delivered May 14, "we'll probably cut the courts some more."
That's on top of the $350 million in cuts made in Brown's initial 2012-13 budget, which have already resulted in a 31 percent reduction in San Francisco Superior Court's 484-person workforce, in addition to hundreds of other job losses, court closings and long delays in civil court proceedings throughout the state.
"It was a disheartening moment for me," Feinstein said Friday. "You think the worst is over, then you learn it isn't."
But it wasn't a total surprise, given that Brown's revenue projections, on which the earlier round of budget cuts were based, have fallen - as the state's legislative analyst put it recently - "a few billion dollars short."
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He should, that asshole started the whole mess in the first place; what a turd sandwich that adulterer is. And to think that he was the best we had back when, quite sickening!
CA is a financial basket case, but Gov. Moonbeam needs 60B dollars for a choo-choo train.
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