http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cuts25nov25,1,5744375,print.story?coll=l\
a-headlines-california
This is roughly as insanely vicious as I imagined. Governor Gangbang proposes cuts over the next 19 months including the following:
- The cuts affecting the developmentally disabled drew immediate criticism. Schwarzenegger's proposal would save $282 million by eliminating music, art, camping and other nonmedical therapy programs for the roughly
626,000 Californians who have mental or physical impairments that make it difficult to learn, speak or care for themselves. Another cut involves suspending the Lanterman Act, which guarantees myriad services for the developmentally disabled.
- Another reduction would save $385 million by cutting cleaning, transportation and other in-home services that the state provides to the elderly, blind and disabled to help keep them out of nursing homes. Advocates for the poor say it would result in 74,200 people losing their care.
- A smaller cut -- $77 million -- would freeze
enrollment in several programs, including Healthy
Families, which provides health care for children of the working poor, and which Schwarzenegger praised during the campaign. The freeze would create waiting lists for that program.
- Schwarzenegger suggests saving $595 million by
cutting 10% from the rate at which the program
reimburses doctors. That would be in addition to a 5% cut that was approved last year, which several health-care groups are challenging in court.
- [T]he governor was proposing more cuts to the
University of California and Cal State systems after both were hit particularly hard in last year's budget. Among the cuts they face are $110 million for outreach efforts, and an additional $98 million in unallocated cuts. UC spokesman Brad Hayward said the outreach programs, which seek to help prepare students from disadvantaged backgrounds for college, focus on the neediest students and ways to help them bridge the achievement gaps that exist in California's public schools.
- Saving $630 million by repealing a new law to allow a family to get food stamps even if it owns a car valued at more than $4,650. [I know quite a few laborers and contractors who cannot afford to lose their trucks].
It's hard to pick a favorite, but this may be it.
Professionals uniformly agree that foster kids have tremendous emotional damage from losing their birth families, compounding the damage that caused them to be placed in the system in the first place. Too often, these were the kids whose only wish was to be adopted into a loving family. Foster kids have no family backup and little assistance at age 18. They are dumped out of the system as it is...
- Saving $376 million by cutting financial assistance for foster children when they make a transition into educational or training programs.
The shallow fuck should try for a gnat's instant to imagine his own kids in that situation.
First runner-up:
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/11/24/daily13.html
"Untouched would be spending on prisons."