{"id":8678,"date":"2009-04-27T21:27:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T21:27:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-27T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T21:27:12","slug":"a-wonkoriffic-view-of-the-budget-mess-and-the-may-19-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/27\/a-wonkoriffic-view-of-the-budget-mess-and-the-may-19-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wonkoriffic View of the Budget Mess and the May 19 Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New America Fouondation has prepared a ten minute video on the budget. &nbsp;It&#8217;s pretty good on getting the facts out, not so good on making it that exciting. &nbsp;But, I know Calitics readers prefer substance over flash, so I&#8217;m pretty sure you will appreciate this. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their quick take on the ballot measures: &#8220;Even if the voters approve every measure on the ballot May 19, they will do no more than kick the can down the road. The structural deficit will remain, and CA will still have big work to do to restore fiscal stability.&#8221; Sounds like <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/8532\/calitics-ed-board-says-no-on-special-election-initiatives\">something we said once<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HH4dm6guSCE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New America Fouondation has prepared a ten minute video on the budget. &nbsp;It&#8217;s pretty good on getting the facts out, not so good on making it that exciting. &nbsp;But, I know Calitics readers prefer substance over flash, so I&#8217;m pretty sure you will appreciate this. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their quick take on the ballot measures: &#8220;Even if the voters approve every measure on the ballot May 19, they will do no more than kick the can down the road. The structural deficit will remain, and CA will still have big work to do to restore fiscal stability.&#8221; Sounds like <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/8532\/calitics-ed-board-says-no-on-special-election-initiatives\">something we said once<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HH4dm6guSCE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HH4dm6guSCE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2fY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678","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=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}