(h/t to JJ of Unrepentant Old Hippie)
Democrats casting old people out into the streets to die!!.... But what is this? A Republican governor secretly cutting 500 million more from the state budget? Which will cast old people out into the streets to die? Oh. Well. At least he's keeping us ... ah... um... safe?
Reporting from Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday signed a budget plan sent to him by lawmakers to close the state's monumental deficit, using his veto pen to impose nearly $500 million in additional cuts.Hell, this is California! Gropenator Arhnold is being even more even-handed and tossing children along with the elderly out into the streets to die! Go for the weak people, Governor! They can't fight back! They are girly men!
The new reductions will affect child welfare and children's healthcare, the elderly, state parks and AIDS treatment and prevention, going beyond the dramatic cuts that were part of the deal Schwarzenegger negotiated with legislative leaders.
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The extra cuts the governor made Tuesday -- $489 million -- took nearly $80 million that pays for workers who help abused and neglected children; $50 million from Healthy Families, which provides healthcare to children in low-income families; $50 million from services for developmentally delayed children under age 3; $16 million from domestic-violence programs; and $6.3 million from services for the elderly. Among other reductions was $6.2 million more from parks, which could result in the closure of 100, rather than 50, of California's 279 state parks.
In addition, Schwarzenegger effectively gutted a program that provides local governments with funding to encourage property owners to preserve open space and to use land for agriculture.
Hope this won't upset you so much that you can't smoke your stogie while soaking in your jacuzzi, Governor.
4 comments:
LOL, the Gropenator.
On a serious note, I sure hope this health care reform goes through. We're trying our best to debunk the BS that's flying around about the Cdn system -- it would help if our lame-ass prime minister would say something about it, but he's One Of Them too, in the tank for the private insurance lobby.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you guys.
Thanks. We need more than just reform, we need a bulldozer and some jackhammers. Hard to detach the suckers of the health insurance industry from health care, but that's what has to happen.
As long as insurance is involved with health, they will not take care of people but pocketbooks.
Exactly.
Well, you have 33million Canucks up here rooting for you guys to get this health care thing rolling.
The campaign against it will get a lot worse before it gets better, though.
fight! fight! fight! Yes you CAN! has healthcare!
Yes plz! /stomps off to kick some butt....
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