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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (81938)	9/2/2010 3:52:22 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Found out he couldn't cut spending? California's painful budget revision ON CALIFORNIA'S FISCAL CRISISMay 15, 2010 Economic experts insist that the recession is ending, but that news hasn't made it to Sacramento. Facing a $19.1 billion budget gap for the 2010-11 fiscal year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a new round of brutal spending cuts on Friday. "California no longer has low-hanging fruits," Schwarzenegger said before his announcement. "We don't have any medium-hanging fruits, and we also don't have any high-hanging fruits. We have to take the ladder from the tree and shake the whole tree." A short list of what's falling from the tree: Schwarzenegger's budget would eliminate CalWORKS, the state's welfare-to-work program. Families would lose both state grants (of about $500 per month) and state-subsidized day care. The budget would slash 60 percent of the state's spending for county mental health programs. In-home health care programs for the elderly and the disabled would lose about a third of their funding. And the state would grab about $880 million from state transportation projects in an attempt to balance the budget. All state workers would face a wage cut of about 10 percent articles.sfgate.com == California, in Financial Crisis, Opens Prison Doors nytimes.com