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Monday, June 1, 2009

No more California dreamin'

Because the state of California is in "crisis," forced to bridge a $24.3 billion budget shortfall that may in fact be a $27 billion shortfall, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a long list of spending cuts. Should the Legislature choose to follow his suggestions, California could become the only state in the union without a public welfare program.

California could also become one of the few states to lock its own citizens out of their own parks, as about 80 percent of state parks would be closed for lack of funding. We'd also have to yank health care from nearly a million low-income children.

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