Oh boy:
The budget blueprint, shaping up as the harshest since Schwarzenegger was first elected in 2003, will include scores of spending reductions that would affect people across the state. School spending would be rolled back by about $3 billion. Welfare payments for tens of thousands of children whose families are considered to be at high risk for homelessness would be eliminated.A cost-of-living increase for the elderly, blind and disabled receiving state assistance would be canceled, as would state-funded dental visits for the poor.The cuts, described by officials familiar with the governor's proposals, are so deep that some in the Capitol are already dismissing the plan as a ruse -- an attempt to stir up so much public demand for a tax hike that the governor will ultimately be able to break his pledge not to take that route.No multibillion-dollar tax increases are in the Schwarzenegger plan for now, the officials said. The proposal offers the governor's vision of how to bring the budget into balance without new revenue.It is certain to rattle voters.Bolsa Chica, Will Rogers, San Clemente, Carlsbad and San Onofre state beaches would all be closed to visitors. Topanga and Mt. San Jacinto state parks would be shut down. Lifeguards and other seasonal staff would be laid off.
A cost-of-living increase for the elderly, blind and disabled receiving state assistance would be canceled, as would state-funded dental visits for the poor.
The cuts, described by officials familiar with the governor's proposals, are so deep that some in the Capitol are already dismissing the plan as a ruse -- an attempt to stir up so much public demand for a tax hike that the governor will ultimately be able to break his pledge not to take that route.
No multibillion-dollar tax increases are in the Schwarzenegger plan for now, the officials said. The proposal offers the governor's vision of how to bring the budget into balance without new revenue.
It is certain to rattle voters.
Bolsa Chica, Will Rogers, San Clemente, Carlsbad and San Onofre state beaches would all be closed to visitors. Topanga and Mt. San Jacinto state parks would be shut down. Lifeguards and other seasonal staff would be laid off.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 January 2008 17:49 (eighteen years ago)
Bolsa Chica, Will Rogers, San Clemente, Carlsbad and San Onofre state beaches would all be closed to visitors. Topanga and Mt. San Jacinto state parks would be shut down.
!! I am not down with this
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 10 January 2008 17:51 (eighteen years ago)
See, you're rattled!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 January 2008 17:52 (eighteen years ago)
shut down california
― carne asada, Thursday, 10 January 2008 18:03 (eighteen years ago)
I am all for tax increases
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 10 January 2008 18:04 (eighteen years ago)
Welfare payments for tens of thousands of children whose families are considered to be at high risk for homelessness would be eliminated.
It sounds like the "Schwarzenegger Homeless" could take their place right alongside the "Reagan Homeless" any day now.
― B.L.A.M., Thursday, 10 January 2008 19:17 (eighteen years ago)
"I am all for tax increases"
Me too. Like property taxes might be a good idea sometimes California ya know!
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 10 January 2008 19:28 (eighteen years ago)
Howard Jarvis's ghost will hunt you down.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 January 2008 19:29 (eighteen years ago)
Howard Jarvis should have been hunted down.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 10 January 2008 19:34 (eighteen years ago)
lolz @ my San Diego elementary school teacher friend who vacations/camps out at Carlsbad beach every year ... and voted for Schwarzennegger
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 10 January 2008 19:41 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/20/california-college-tuitio_n_365209.html
LOS ANGELES — As protests resounded outside, the University of California Board of Regents approved a 32 percent fee increase for students attending the state's premier public schools.The vote in a windowless University of California, Los Angeles, meeting room took place Thursday as hundreds of students and union members gathered nearby, waving signs, pounding drums and chanting "We're fired up, can't take it no more" and "Shame on you."The $2,500 increase will push the cost of an undergraduate education to more than $10,000 a year by next fall, about triple the cost of a decade ago. The fees, the equivalent of tuition, do not include the cost of housing, board and books.
The vote in a windowless University of California, Los Angeles, meeting room took place Thursday as hundreds of students and union members gathered nearby, waving signs, pounding drums and chanting "We're fired up, can't take it no more" and "Shame on you."
The $2,500 increase will push the cost of an undergraduate education to more than $10,000 a year by next fall, about triple the cost of a decade ago. The fees, the equivalent of tuition, do not include the cost of housing, board and books.
at least CSU tuitions are decent enough to have only merely doubled in the last decade :)
http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/05/15/mn_tuition_graphic.jpg
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 20 November 2009 17:55 (sixteen years ago)