Posted on 05/20/2012 12:35:06 PM PDT by SmithL
Legislative Democrats aren't organizing a bake sale just yet, but they say they will desperately search for cash in the coming weeks to avoid the most severe cuts proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Saying the state's budget deficit has risen from $9.2 billion to $15.7 billion, the Democratic governor has proposed more cuts to programs that serve the state's poorest residents.
Brown has described it as a "day of reckoning" and wants his fellow Democrats to slash as much as possible before he asks voters to hike taxes on sales and high-income earners in November.
But Democrats signaled immediately that they plan to block some of the deepest cuts to welfare, child care and college scholarships for low-income students.
"We will scour the cupboards, look behind the pots and underneath the cushions, doing everything we can do to see if there's some opportunity to reduce the extent to which we have to make these cuts," said Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento.
Democratic lawmakers say they have cut enough in the wake of the recession and that Brown's proposals would result in homelessness, even death.
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Well, they could issue those “Californicate Chitmans” instead of real money and not cut anything. All payments will be 70% real money and 30% in Califoricate Chitmans. Solves the problem in a good socialist way.
Democrats haven’t cut enough if they are still getting benefits including retirement. If the nine elections limiting their terms have said nothing else, it is that the people of California do not believe legislators have a career, it is just brief service.
They could sell those oil leases off the coast...
What occurs is concentration. Those that profit from the system stay, those who don’t escape and the concentration of Dem voters increases. It keeps the Dems in power locally, but if we could get the Constitution kick started and reign in the FEDGOV these cities/counties would be done in a year or less.
You’d see Democrats looking mighty conservative and pronto.
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