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What a shock--California budget process is going to be long, hard, with lots of yelling and special interests. We refused to cut government, now we have a deficit, when you count everything, of over $40 billion.
"For some state employees, Gov. Schwarzeneggers revised budget contains cuts that are even deeper than those in earlier budgets that sparked lawsuits from public employee unions.
The three unpaid furlough days per month are scheduled to end at the end of June, per the provisions of Gov. Schwarzeneggers executive order. The furloughs were among the workforce items intended to save the state about $2 billion, according to the administration, and represent the equivalent of about a 15 percent pay cut. The administration believes a similar level of savings will be realized through new cuts in the governors revised, 2010-11 budget, although budget experts in both the Capitol and the Legislative Analysts Office (LAO) say that $2 billion figure is optimistic by hundreds of millions of dollars."
Instead of cutting state employees--Arnold has added employees.
We are not serious about the State budget. The good news is that we should run out of actual money this summer--then maybe we can cut government employment, end the union corruption of the government and run a basic government, not a Democrat port laden government.
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"For some state employees, Gov. Schwarzeneggers revised budget contains cuts that are even deeper than those in earlier budgets that sparked lawsuits from public employee unions.
The three unpaid furlough days per month are scheduled to end at the end of June, per the provisions of Gov. Schwarzeneggers executive order. The furloughs were among the workforce items intended to save the state about $2 billion, according to the administration, and represent the equivalent of about a 15 percent pay cut. The administration believes a similar level of savings will be realized through new cuts in the governors revised, 2010-11 budget, although budget experts in both the Capitol and the Legislative Analysts Office (LAO) say that $2 billion figure is optimistic by hundreds of millions of dollars."
Instead of cutting state employees--Arnold has added employees.
We are not serious about the State budget. The good news is that we should run out of actual money this summer--then maybe we can cut government employment, end the union corruption of the government and run a basic government, not a Democrat port laden government.
More...