California "faces insolvency within weeks"
Submitted by christopher X on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 19:55http://uk.reuters.com/article/marketsNewsUS/idUKN15534281200...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Thursday the state "faces insolvency within weeks" and that he will put new policies on hold until there is a deal with lawmakers to close the budget gap, which will top $40 billion over the current and next fiscal year.
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What about the unreported
CAFR1.com money???
I'm from California and I've done some cursory research...
into the issue.
Our budget has increased ridiculously over the past few years:
Most of the new expenditures are on items categorized under Health & Human Services, and Education. The problem is many of our State Congressmen don't want to pair back those programs to their 2004 levels, and they can't agree on whether they ought to hike taxes, or cut something else.
Ordinarily this wouldn't be such a problem, but in California we require a super majority to enact a budget, making possible for minorities to oppose both new spending and spending cuts.
I guess the moral of the story is requiring super majorities to enact budgets can be a double edged sword.
I actually like the concept of requiring a super majority in order to enact a budget... however I would amend it so that every government program would sunset automatically after five years or whenever the state's expenditures surpassed its revenue.
Here's a link to the CA Budgets from the past 10 years on the off chance you want to poke around.
They said that weeks ago.
sh*t or get off the pot.
They're worried bigtime
Mayor Kevin Johnson says talk is cheap, they need action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhU9nw35MpI
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British TV is full of adverts for tourism in California.
Arnie, his wife and Rob Lowe are all begging us to spend money there.
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It's a nice place... come on down...
The weather is nice, and we promise not to rip you off too badly. ;)
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2008 CAFR not listed yet...
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That, and their stupid
That, and their stupid support of so many illegals, makes it really hard for me to feel a shred of sympathy.
Pat
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It's simple.
It's very simple. They need to massively cut the scope of unaffordable government here. It's them or us. And if "us" goes under, there will no longer be a "them" to collect taxes from.
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Right on time ... Just as I thought ....
February.
Bump for the front page.
Great find.
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where do I send the brownie badge and the cookies Rhino!
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Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry
And I would dearly like to know
How all this squander of earthly plunder
will leave us anything to show