California contemplates ultimate reform - no welfare
By
robert108
on June 8, 2009 at 07:13 am
By Cynthia Hubert | Sacramento Bee
I doubt this will happen, but if it does, we will find out quickly that there are no “jobs Americans won’t do”. Also, a mass exodus of invaders would hopefully be one of the consequences.
The real truth about CA’s shortfall is the greedy govt worker unions, which won’t be touched by this.
I do like how she refers to fiscal sanity as a "doomsday scenerio", though. From the position of greedy govt, that's exactly what it is.
No more free lunch for the bureaucrats.
Could California become the first state in the nation to do away with welfare?
That doomsday scenario is on the table as lawmakers wrestle with a staggering $24.3 billion budget deficit.
County welfare directors are “in shock” at the very idea of getting rid of CalWORKs, which has been widely viewed as one of the most successful social programs in the state’s history, said Bruce Wagstaff, director of the Department of Human Assistance in Sacramento.
“It’s difficult to come up with the right adjective to react to this,” Wagstaff said. “It would be devastating to the people we serve.”
H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the state Department of Finance, said California is in an unprecedented fiscal situation that has made all programs, from education to human services, vulnerable to deep and painful reductions.
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I doubt this will happen, but if it does, we will find out quickly that there are no “jobs Americans won’t do”. Also, a mass exodus of invaders would hopefully be one of the consequences.
The real truth about CA’s shortfall is the greedy govt worker unions, which won’t be touched by this.
I do like how she refers to fiscal sanity as a "doomsday scenerio", though. From the position of greedy govt, that's exactly what it is.
No more free lunch for the bureaucrats.
