After the budget deal was done, Arnold reached for his blue pencil. The blue pencil was not kind to California, and for some it meant the difference between getting back on their feet, and struggling to survive…or worse.<\/p>\n
The list of whom the $1b in cuts attacks reads like a who’s who of the most vulnerable Californians. Foster children, the disabled, AIDS patients, struggling working families, you name it, Arnold attacked.<\/p>\n
Schwarzenegger sliced $962 million from the spending plan sent to him by the Legislature 100 days after the start of the fiscal year July 1.<\/p>\n
In most cases, the governor explained his line-item vetoes with boilerplate language saying the cuts were necessary to “help bring ongoing expenditures in line with existing resources and to build a prudent reserve.” In some cases Schwarzenegger pointed out that alternative funding might be available to blunt the effect of his reductions, or suggested that California will seek federal money to offset the loss of state dollars.<\/p>\n
But those explanations did not satisfy the governor’s many critics, some of whom felt betrayed by his actions.<\/p>\n
Sarah Jimenez, communications director for the County Welfare Directors Association, released a statement from the group calling Schwarzenegger a “hypocrite.” She noted that just last week, the governor signed Assembly Bill 12, a bill extending services to youth in foster care until age 21, and spoke about his commitment to children.(Healthy Cal<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While Schwarzenegger points out that many of these cuts may be offset by other sources of revenue, many will not. CalWORKS has now been cut to a hollow shell of its former self. It was once a model for the type of welfare reform that the neoliberals, Clinton and many Republicans, said they could support. Now that the Right has moved far to the right of their 1980s counterparts, that is completely out of fashion. That it was successful at both stabilizing families and getting members of the community back into the work force seems to be secondary at this point.<\/p>\n
Foster children will continue to be left for the most part to fend for themselves as they age out of the system, and AIDS patients have to hope that pharma wants to continue to get the federal match. It’s government by hope and prayer, not a productive system for sustainable government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After the budget deal was done, Arnold reached for his blue pencil. The blue pencil was not kind to California, and for some it meant the difference between getting back on their feet, and struggling to survive…or worse.<\/p>\n
The list of whom the $1b in cuts attacks reads like a who’s who of the most vulnerable Californians. Foster children, the disabled, AIDS patients, struggling working families, you name it, Arnold attacked.<\/p>\n
Schwarzenegger sliced $962 million from the spending plan sent to him by the Legislature 100 days after the start of the fiscal year July 1.<\/p>\n
In most cases, the governor explained his line-item vetoes with boilerplate language saying the cuts were necessary to “help bring ongoing expenditures in line with existing resources and to build a prudent reserve.” In some cases Schwarzenegger pointed out that alternative funding might be available to blunt the effect of his reductions, or suggested that California will seek federal money to offset the loss of state dollars.<\/p>\n
But those explanations did not satisfy the governor’s many critics, some of whom felt betrayed by his actions.<\/p>\n
Sarah Jimenez, communications director for the County Welfare Directors Association, released a statement from the group calling Schwarzenegger a “hypocrite.” She noted that just last week, the governor signed Assembly Bill 12, a bill extending services to youth in foster care until age 21, and spoke about his commitment to children.(Healthy Cal<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While Schwarzenegger points out that many of these cuts may be offset by other sources of revenue, many will not. CalWORKS has now been cut to a hollow shell of its former self. It was once a model for the type of welfare reform that the neoliberals, Clinton and many Republicans, said they could support. Now that the Right has moved far to the right of their 1980s counterparts, that is completely out of fashion. That it was successful at both stabilizing families and getting members of the community back into the work force seems to be secondary at this point.<\/p>\n
Foster children will continue to be left for the most part to fend for themselves as they age out of the system, and AIDS patients have to hope that pharma wants to continue to get the federal match. It’s government by hope and prayer, not a productive system for sustainable government.<\/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":[32,117],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-12681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","category-117","tag-221"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3ix","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681","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=12681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}