Comments on: Another reason to hate California: California state budget shenanigans

By: lcd

lcd — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:55:55 +0000

I am reading with great apprehension the evolving news about our State’s budget.
I cannot believe that Sacramento is starting to talk about suspending prop 98, for the second time in 2 years.

Education, the corner stone of our democracy, is once again made the scapegoat.

A bill is currently being discussed in the Senate which would lower the majority requirement necessary to raise a parcel tax, benefiting school districts. The bill is called SCA 6.
This bill is not a tax increase, rather, it would restore the democratic process, giving communities the opportunity to make local choices, benefiting local schools without going through Sacramento.

Please consider signing an on line petition in support of this bill
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-california-schools.html

By: Californians: what can you do with an IOU? — The Baglady

Californians: what can you do with an IOU? — The Baglady — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:44:47 +0000

[...] is already July, and the ludicrous budget plan I wrote about a week ago did not end up passing. Now California is starting to issue IOUs for [...]

By: laoma

laoma — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:01:37 +0000

The state goverment has cash flow problems now. They do not have money to pay bills. That is why they try to delay the payments.

By: convict

convict — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:37:28 +0000

“Illegal immigrants in prisons are being sent to immigration to be deported. They really should have done this years ago. Isn’t this really common sense?”

No it really isn’t common sense. Letting criminals/prisoners go before serving there whole sentence because they are illegal is kind of dumb. Most criminals are a part of a network so once released in there own country they are more likely than not going to make there way back to America via there network. Also we can’t ensure the treatment of the prisoners once they leave our prisons I think it is kind of a “cop out” we convict a person then shrug responsibly for there imprisonment. The budget crisis is very complex and these paper fixes aren’t going to fix them. It is very easy to target those who have little or no rights and few people to fight for those rights.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:58:57 +0000

I just feel like LA Times reports more and the writing is better. Today a friend actually told me that he didn’t know any of these things by reading the Chronicle, and he had to get the news from my blog. What’s up with that? Anyway, it seems that this budget is a no go.