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2009-11-12 Economy

Schwarzenegger: This year's budget gap may hit $7 billion

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The state wastes a lot of money on school class size mandates. They reduced classroom size by 1/3 and got no increase in performance for it. Consider it a failed experiment. You would do better going back to a 30 student classroom, firing the worst 33% of the teachers and closing 33% of the schools that have been kept open solely from this class size mandate.

This would give more kids exposure to the best teachers and get dead wood out of the system.

We need to actually start executing condemned prisoners instead of treating death row as a welfare program for the prison guard union.

I would favor execution for people committing their third violent felony. Let's stop warehousing them for life. Sort of a "three major strikes and you are 'out' of the planet".

Reduce CalTrans bureaucracy. Allow local and county jurisdictions more leeway in doing their own projects without having to run to CalTrans every few minutes to get approval to repair a sidewalk just because the sidewalk abuts a state road.

Stop making MediCal such a great program that people prefer it over private insurance.

Stop the pension madness.

Those are just some beginnings.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-11-12 04:03|| 2009-11-12 04:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Crosspatch, your wishes are so unrealistic you may as well wish for California to start planting money trees in place of all the agriculture that will soon be gone because of water restrictions.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-11-12 07:08|| 2009-11-12 07:08|| Front Page Top

#3 While we're on the Dream List theme, let's eliminate the Office of Stress Reduction that provides counseling to SEIU employees who work for the Victim Assistance Program (sarcasm added).

Posted by HammerHead 2009-11-12 08:44|| 2009-11-12 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 "It will be tougher because I think the low-hanging fruits and the medium-hanging fruits are all gone. I think that now we are going to the high-hanging fruits, and very tough decisions still have to be made."

Hanging fruits?

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-11-12 10:08|| 2009-11-12 10:08|| Front Page Top

#5 I read somewhere that CA has not fired one single state employee due to budget issues. Can this be true?

Posted by Hellfish 2009-11-12 12:26|| 2009-11-12 12:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's an idea: QUIT SPENDING

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-12 13:50|| 2009-11-12 13:50|| Front Page Top

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