By now you've heard the
bad news: California is confronting a budget hole of
historic proportions, one that will require billions
of dollars in spending cuts, increases in fees and
perhaps even higher taxes - No, this is not
referring to the state of affairs in California as
of July 2008, but to what then Gov. Gray Davis and
the California Legislature were faced with in
December 2002.
On Monday July 28, 2008, California Senate President
Pro Tem Don Perata canceled a vote on a
Democrat-proposed spending plan facing sure defeat
aided by minority Republicans who threatened
to block the Democrats' plan over its provisions for
raising taxes. Click here
for story
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has threatened to slash
the pay of more than 200,000 state workers to the
federal minimum of $6.55 per hour to help ease the
state's budget crisis and to put an end to overtime
pay for all but critical services, a freeze on state
hiring and the immediate layoff of nearly 22,000
temporary, seasonal and student workers, because
"there is a real and substantial risk that the
state will have insufficient cash to pay for state
expenditures"
And what is the Orange County Board of Supervisors
doing to prevent another county bankruptcy?
Abdicate their responsibility by handing off a
crippling expenditure to direct democracy: The
OC BOS Tuesday unanimously approved an initiative
that would require voters to OK any increases in
public workers' pensions, with predictable results.
The special interest dinosaur will take a
page out of the California Teachers Association
demanding a "responsible
budget solution by increasing taxes"!
Supervisor Chris Norby, taking a page out of Senator
Kerry's playbook voted against the move, before he
voted for it:
"This initiative is political posturing and
comes ten years too late. The plan sends a message
that supervisors can't trust themselves to do the
right thing, Do we really want to vote to save
ourselves from ourselves?" - Supervisor Chris
Norby voting against the initiative before he voted
for it.
Will the real Republican in the Orange County Board
of Supervisors stand up and be counted?
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August 2008 ISSUE
We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!
Orange Sup, Orange Squeeze
July
30,
2008
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