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Send in the violinists. Get your crying towels ready. The world as we know it is ending--welfare is being cut.
"In California, cutting programs and services has become a semiannual ritual, a darkening of the dream in a state that once prided itself on its generosity. In dealing with $60 billion in deficits in little more than a year, state officials already have carved deeply into every corner of the government and are bracing for the need to whack more to close another $19.9-billion hole.
"We've seen some pretty awful impacts already," said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, a Sacramento-based nonprofit. "The cuts today don't just hit millions of Californians, they unravel the healthcare system that we all rely on."
The Times does not note that high taxes have savaged families. Bills like AB 32 have demolished jobs. Government protection of delta smelt has killed hundreds of farms and tens of thousands of jobs--plus adding to costs for food.
The Times seems to worry about government buses, instead of people's jobs. The problem with schools, per the Times is the number of students in a classroom, not the failed unions running the schools.
This story is so misplaced that it will cause even more subscribers to stop buying the paper. Just this past week the Times announced i is cutting the size of the paper by 6% and closing one of its two printing facilities. Maybe if the newspaper wrote about how government taxes and regulations were harming productive, honest people, the paper would be doing better. Instead it prefers criminals be comfortable in jail and illegal aliens get a pathway to citizenship.
The Times is committing suicide, and no one is stopping them.
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"In California, cutting programs and services has become a semiannual ritual, a darkening of the dream in a state that once prided itself on its generosity. In dealing with $60 billion in deficits in little more than a year, state officials already have carved deeply into every corner of the government and are bracing for the need to whack more to close another $19.9-billion hole.
"We've seen some pretty awful impacts already," said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access, a Sacramento-based nonprofit. "The cuts today don't just hit millions of Californians, they unravel the healthcare system that we all rely on."
The Times does not note that high taxes have savaged families. Bills like AB 32 have demolished jobs. Government protection of delta smelt has killed hundreds of farms and tens of thousands of jobs--plus adding to costs for food.
The Times seems to worry about government buses, instead of people's jobs. The problem with schools, per the Times is the number of students in a classroom, not the failed unions running the schools.
This story is so misplaced that it will cause even more subscribers to stop buying the paper. Just this past week the Times announced i is cutting the size of the paper by 6% and closing one of its two printing facilities. Maybe if the newspaper wrote about how government taxes and regulations were harming productive, honest people, the paper would be doing better. Instead it prefers criminals be comfortable in jail and illegal aliens get a pathway to citizenship.
The Times is committing suicide, and no one is stopping them.
More...