Deeper budget cuts hit schools and California's neediest

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Rich people and corporations apparently still protected. Sounds like disaster capitalism has come to Kollyforneeya.

This ought to be an employment act for lawyers too.

Why not just shut the state government down?
We could return all it's functions over to local governments, and they could just keep their own money.

So, can we call California a "failed state" yet?

Reporting from Sacramento -- A broad array of Californians would be touched in fundamental ways by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest proposal to balance the state budget: senior citizens who attend day-care centers, voters seeking absentee ballots, children who ride the bus to school, parents seeking enforcement of custody orders.

These services could go by the wayside in a plan the governor unveiled Friday to slice $2.8 billion more from state spending. The announcement was the closing act of a two-week drama during which Schwarzenegger proposed dismantling many of government's functions.

His new proposal would expand on cuts he put forward in earlier plans to close $21 billion of the budget shortfall as he and lawmakers begin negotiations to keep the state from running out of money by the end of July. That deficit projection has since swollen to more than $24 billion.

Schools would be hit by $680 million in new cuts to classrooms and by $315 million in cuts for transportation. The state's social safety net would lose $1 billion more in funding for the poor, disabled and aged. Cities and counties would lose an additional $242 million in transportation funding.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget30-2009may30,0,3948176.story

[Kajsa]

1. As of July 1,2009, Denti-Cal is will gone for those

over 21 yrs. of age.

The exceptions are those in nursing homes and pregnant women.

All others will pay for dental care out of pocket.

What is next?

Cutting Medi-Cal for the disabled and seniors not living in nursing homes?

:(

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2. Mental health and minority AIDS projects in LA are in trouble as well.

Looks like the weak and so far unorganized are going to suffer greatly as he continues to destroy the state...he isn't really fighting against the organized, such as the firefighters, is he? Yet the teachers are taking the brunt as well..

Such damage to the social infrastructure of CA will be difficult to re-establish after Arnold is ousted. Too bad we can't tax Beverly Hills and the rich local corporations instead of moving towards privatizing State land, etc.

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3. They closed 4 schools in Fairfield this week.