Thursday, June 11, 2009

Governator threatens to shut down state government


This sounds like deja vu all over again. Last year, Arnold threatened the state employees with layoffs, cuts, and changing their hourly wages to $6.50 a hour. Let's not forget the all night stay for the legislators to pass last year's budget. Now, Arnold's newest threat?: shutting down the State department. I smell recall for Arnuld!

The governor says that if a budget deal isn't reached, he won't approve emergency borrowing to tide California over.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed Wednesday to let California government come to a "grinding halt" rather than agree to a high-interest loan to keep the state afloat if he and the Legislature do not close the yawning budget gap in coming weeks.At the same time, the governor reversed himself on a proposal to end health insurance for families of police officers and firefighters who died in the line of duty. Schwarzenegger called the plan, first
reported by The Times on Tuesday, a "terrible screw-up" that is being corrected.

Read on.

2 comments:

airJackie said...

The real screw-up is Arnie is the Govenor. I don't expect much from the Cal. Law Makers or the Terminator as both are only in the job for the money from lobbyist and special interest groups.

Anonymous said...

I feel for you all in California, really.