Schwarzenegger Makes Additional Welfare Cuts (Child Health & Welfare, Medi-Cal, Aids prevention)

[Kadie]

Governor Makes Additional Welfare Cuts
Schwarzenegger Signs Budget

POSTED: 11:13 am PDT July 28, 2009
UPDATED: 11:58 am PDT July 28, 2009

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made additional cuts to child welfare programs, medical care for the poor and AIDS prevention efforts Tuesday as he signed an $85 billion compromise spending plan that he called "the good, the bad and the ugly."

Schwarzenegger used his line-item veto authority to save an additional $656 million that will let the state restore a reserve fund he says is needed for tough times.

Schwarzenegger's vetoes include $80 million from child welfare programs; $61 million in county funding to administer Medi-Cal, California's version of Medicare; $52 million from AIDS prevention; $50 million to Healthy Families, the low-cost health insurance program for poor children; and $6.2 million more from state parks.

"Those are ugly cuts and I'm the only one that is really responsible for those cuts because the Legislature left, they didn't want to make those cuts," he said.

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[mmonk]

1. Keep the waste, screw the needy.

Only in America.

[Johonny]

2. boy that sure saves us money in the long run

when AIDS rate goes up. No long term health costs there.

[havocmom]

3. Nerver occurs to him that the rich should take a hit every now and then

It will dawn on him when he is on the dinner table. Not AT the table, on it. Along with the other pigs in the top bracket who think the poor should shoulder more burden so they can keep their precious status quo.

[provis99]

4. god forbid that millionaire California farmers should take a hit, though