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By Ward Harkavy in Budget, Featured, Health-care costs
Wednesday, May. 27 2009 @ 9:04AM
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The latest budget news out of broke-ass California isn't all bad. On top of $16 billion in cuts proposed two weeks ago, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sent lawmakers his plans to trim $5 billion more.

In the wake of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's rejection of California's plea for a bailout, Arnold's new plans could be worse. Everything will be spared except for state programs for health care, higher education, welfare, parks, AIDS treatment and counseling, and prisoner rehabilitation, all of which will be either dismantled or sharply curtailed. The governor will announce $3 billion more in cuts by the end of the week.

Noreen Evans, chair of the Assembly's budget committee is quoted by McClatchy as saying:

"It shocks the conscience that we have to throw sick children off of welfare to satisfy Wall Street."

She's wrong about that. New York has thrown plenty of sick children off of welfare — and even wants to cut funding to treat autistic children — and that still hasn't satisfied Wall Street.

Aside from those corporate socialists, even other socialists aren't satisfied. More cuts are in store in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, where oil income has plummeted, and the populace may be too weakened to hit the streets in protest. As McClatchy reports:

"Today, there's no milk, no rice, no beans, no chicken, no meat, no butter and no cooking oil," Francisco Quintero said as he shopped at a government store that sells subsidized staples for the poor.

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Blake H. says:

The Terminator: Salvation reviews are starting to come in, and it looks like Terminator: Salvation is going to be a hit. The reboot film of the Terminator series, starring Christian Bale, is an update on the film series that began in 1984 with the release of the first film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The first film was shot for $6 million, and made over $80 million. Salvation is a franchise reboot, as both prequel and sequel, and it's been getting a lot of buzz. It might be worth short term loans to see if the Terminator: Salvation reviews turn out well.

Posted On: Thursday, May. 28 2009 @ 4:40AM