Growing California Deficit Could Mean More School Cuts

Monday, May 14, 2012

California State Controller John Chiang and Gov. Jerry Brown look on as state treasurer Bill Lockyear speaks during a briefing on California's state budget. (Justin Sullivan/Getty)

California Governor Jerry Brown announced on Saturday that his budget for the coming fiscal year would need some tweaking. "Tax receipts are coming in lower than expected. And the federal government, and courts, have blocked us from making millions in necessary budget reductions," Governor Brown announced Saturday. "The result is that we’re now facing a $16 billion hole." The gap is going to be a hard one to fill. Governor Brown has been making cuts to state spending since he took office, but the $7 billion shortfall will mean far more cuts than he anticipated.

Discussing how the state got to this point is Chris Megerian, a political reporter with the L.A. Times. Adam Swart, chief of staff in the UCLA student government, explains what the cuts could mean for his school.

Guests:

Christopher Megerian and Adam Swart

Produced by:

John Light

Comments [3]

Dave Francis from Indianapolis, IN

Also the most costly payout from taxpayers is the children that are slipped in by visitors from other countries or across our poorly enforced fence at the border that are eligible to become citizens, which promotes massive chain migration and enables parents to settle here. Over 400 thousand are estimated to take advantage of this misinterpreted law, again costing genuine Americans welfare programs. The birthright citizenship law must be amended, so only children with one citizen parent allows this right. Don’t remain blind to the profiteers in Washington and demand they enforce immigration laws. Because of this fiasco of our Immigration laws business owners are directly responsible for the growing amount of $113 Billion dollars in public welfare programs.

According to the Heritage Foundation if Democrats get their way, we would be adding a further 2.6 Trillion dollars to the already accelerating 15.6 Trillion dollars if an amnesty is imposed. Both political parties are responsible for this parasitic invasion, which is catering to any of the 20 million plus illegal aliens already here. Even while they are stealing us blind of our own impoverished, our own sick and homeless, they are stealing another $4.2 billion dollars from taxpayers through the incompetence of the IRS, who would audit American for exaggerating on the business car mileage. Even illogical to this is that illegal aliens are allowed to wire out of America annually over $40 billion dollars to foreign banks not being absorbed back into the economy. Our country has been neglected for years, occupied by illegal immigrants and hordes of criminals. Mitt Romney better not turn on the massive TEA PARTY on this issue, or they will realize he cannot be trusted. Americans haven’t learned that you cannot get something for nothing. Half of this country’s population, live off the other half’s income and that is why our social safety nets are failing. The last realistic chance we have of getting out of our financial mess is to remove the old members of Congress and state capitals, with Tea Party leaders. It happened in Indiana when Senator Richard Lugar was retired, replaced by a Tea Party lawmaker.

May. 14 2012 10:11 PM
listener

It stinks when you get everything you voted for, isn't it California?

What ever happened to Meg Whitman's housekeeper who "progressives" in the media were so worried about at one time? Do they know or care now? Was it just a cynical distraction as the California economy goes off the cliff?

Something to think about when the media peddles one dumb distraction after another in this election and we are looking at a 16 trillion dollar hole for the nation.

May. 14 2012 09:54 AM
Samantha from Brooklyn, NY

It is 100% unrealistic for people to think that a quality higher education system should be inexpensive. The overhead in student, faculty and staff mental and physical healthcare alone are not covered by the current cost of public tuition in most states. People simply do not understand the incredible expense of the kind of education we have come to expect in this country, yet they continue to talk about it as if they do.

May. 14 2012 07:41 AM

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