Comments on: DeSaulnier sends out e-alert on budget

By: BGR

BGR — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:41:59 +0000

Is this the same Mark DeSaulnier that predicted a quick end to budget fight back in early January.

http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/01/02/desaulnier-predicts-quick-end-to-budget-fight/

How prescient.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:29:41 +0000

people need to look into the mirror and say yes i’m here and I will help yes the State need to pass the budget at what ever cost is the state of NY going though this NO their not we need to wake up and pass a budget this is bad for America in whole!

By: Elwood

Elwood — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:44:20 +0000

Barney Frank, fiscal watch dog!

The mind boggles!

By: BGR

BGR — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:24:38 +0000

Let’s stipulate that what Josh says is true.

Instead of throwing good money after bad, California ought to do the right thing and declare bankruptcy and place itself under the care of a Democratic Administration that could assign some trustee watch dog like Barney Frank.

Then the real party could start in Sacramento with yet another blank check. But this time every American could pay for it instead of just us overtaxed Californians.

By: Josh Richman

Josh Richman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:06:47 +0000

Reducing payroll alone won’t do it. The LA Times’ George Skelton addressed this yesterday:

“According to the state budget document, there is the equivalent of 205,000 full-time jobs controlled by the governor. There actually are more workers than that because some are part-time. Do the math based on 16 months, since that’s now the time frame of the projected deficit, assuming a balanced-budget package could be implemented by March 1.

“You could lay off all those state workers — rid yourself of their pay and benefits — and save only $24.4 billion.

“Meanwhile, you would have dumped 160,000 convicted felons onto the streets because all the prisons were closed after the guards and wardens were fired. There’d be no Highway Patrol because all the officers were canned. State parks would be closed because there were no fee-collectors or rangers.

“Truth is the savings wouldn’t even add up to $24.4 billion because some of those employees are paid out of small special funds that are self-sustaining. It’s the big general fund that suffers the deficit. But let’s say the books could be shuffled mysteriously and all that savings realized. You’d still need a lot more.”

By: Robert Jones

Robert Jones — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:55:43 +0000

You liberals never get it. We are having financial problems because of over-spending. Suck it up and reduce payroll much like the private sector does.