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AP-Gov. Schwarzenegger
Details of California’s 26.3 billion dollar budget deficit deal, reached Monday after intense negotiations during a period where the state issued IOU’s, reveals a significant reduction in across the board state services
The state K-12 school system and community colleges will suffer the most severe cuts, with reductions of 6 billion over two years, while the University of California and the California State University systems will see their budgets reduced by 3 billion. Savings of 1.3 billion will come from cuts in programs for health care for the poor. The state will save another 1.3 billion by forcing state workers to take 3 unpaid furlough days per month, and another 1.2 billion will be saved by releasing 27,000 prisoners.
It is interesting to note that there was no attempt to address the massive strain that illegal immigration places on California’s budget. For example, it is estimated that California spends 7.7 billion annually to educate the children of illegal aliens. If that money was instead retained, in theory California would not have to cut their education spending at all for fiscal 2009-10. Many believe this is a very tangible illustration of how illegal immigration impacts and affects the citizens of California. In their misguided attempt to be “compassionate,” the people of that state who elected their political leaders may find themselves with children less educated and possibly ill equipped to enter an ultra competitive workplace as a result.
Think about that for a moment.
Ironically, the state budget cuts in health care programs and the savings from releasing prisoners would also be offset by denying illegals entry into the country. The annual cost of providing health care for illegal aliens is estimated to be 1.3 billion while the cost to incarcerate illegal prisoners is 1.4 billion. The small economic benefit of illegal aliens not withstanding; in effect, treating the afflictions and housing the prisoners of the illegal population is resulting in less comprehensive health care for the poor and a potentially higher crime rate in California. There is a growing belief that when the legitimate citizens of the United States begin to become significantly affected, the “rights” of illegal immigrants should be a secondary consideration.
There is already considerable anger building in California from many educators and from the disenfranchised, since both stand to lose substantially in this budget deal. The chorus from those who put California in this mess to begin with will begin to trumpet their familiar tune in the coming days; vilifying the wealthy and corporations. They will demand that the state restore these budget cuts and that it must impose yet higher taxes on both individuals and businesses to solve the current crisis.
Good idea. Maybe California can run all their businesses and wealthy people out of the state. We would welcome them here in Arizona; we have a huge deficit too.
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