{"id":12659,"date":"2010-10-07T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-07T00:32:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T00:32:47","slug":"a-budget-for-the-dreamers-and-the-sleepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/07\/a-budget-for-the-dreamers-and-the-sleepers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Budget for the Dreamers and the Sleepers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some additional details have been released about the budget deal that the Legislative leaders have cobbled together through a report released by the Senate today. (PDF here<\/a>) My title here signifies a few things. First, that the budget is pretty optimistic for the amount of money it expects from the federal government.  But beyond the great big sense of hope, this budget is basically something that you’d expect to see out of a Republican dream list.<\/p>\n

Under the plan, current state employees would have their pay cut, contribute more to their pension plan and would be subjected to a payroll freeze. The combination would save the state $1.5 billion this year, the report says.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers also would suspend the state’s education-funding guarantee, lowering school spending by $3 billion. But more than half of that cutback would be an accounting move, simply deferring payment of some school bills until the following fiscal year.<\/p>\n

The eight-page conference report does not detail all the proposed cuts in the plan. But California’s in-home healthcare program for the elderly, blind and disabled would shrink by 3.6%, the document says. Child-care services provided by the state would be trimmed by $48 million. (LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is hardly something to be proud of. It’s a budget, I suppose, and given the 2\/3 requirements, this is what you expect.  But this budget will continue the state on a path down the road of fewer services, less investment in the future, and a bleak outlook. There is no winner in this, save those who want to push the state over the cliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some additional details have been released about the budget deal that the Legislative leaders have cobbled together through a report released by the Senate today. (PDF here<\/a>) My title here signifies a few things. First, that the budget is pretty optimistic for the amount of money it expects from the federal government.  But beyond the great big sense of hope, this budget is basically something that you’d expect to see out of a Republican dream list.<\/p>\n

Under the plan, current state employees would have their pay cut, contribute more to their pension plan and would be subjected to a payroll freeze. The combination would save the state $1.5 billion this year, the report says.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers also would suspend the state’s education-funding guarantee, lowering school spending by $3 billion. But more than half of that cutback would be an accounting move, simply deferring payment of some school bills until the following fiscal year.<\/p>\n

The eight-page conference report does not detail all the proposed cuts in the plan. But California’s in-home healthcare program for the elderly, blind and disabled would shrink by 3.6%, the document says. Child-care services provided by the state would be trimmed by $48 million. (LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is hardly something to be proud of. It’s a budget, I suppose, and given the 2\/3 requirements, this is what you expect.  But this budget will continue the state on a path down the road of fewer services, less investment in the future, and a bleak outlook. There is no winner in this, save those who want to push the state over the cliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}