Apparently missing his acting career, Schwarzeneger has made good on his promise to come back and has done so in the cheapest way. In an effort to prove that governments can run without taxes he has eliminated funding for domestic violence shelters.
The shelter in Madera County has announced it will cease operations, while, in nearby Kings County, the future is precarious.
Cooper said the timing couldn’t be worse as rising unemployment and the recession have caused calls for assistance to nearly double at the Visalia facility, run by Family Services of Tulare County. She said counselors are most alarmed by increases in domestic violence, homicides and murder-suicides that illustrate the recession can truly be deadly for some trapped in a cycle of domestic abuse.
Normally referred to as battered women’s shelters, the programs provide 24-hour transportation, counseling and a safe haven for victims of domestic abuse ›both female and male ‘›who fear for their safety. Children outnumber adults at Tulare County’s facility by a ratio of 3-to-1.
The shelter even offers a school with a credentialed teacher for the time school-aged residents are at the facility, which can be as long as 60 days.
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Women in need of shelter will now instead receive these lovely T-shirts
That whole scenario is a bad/bad situation. He cannot increase taxes to cover the deficit because a 2/3 majority of voters in local elections must agree to any more than a 1% increase. (Way – to – go, Ronnie Reagan). So the only option is to reduce spending – and we all know what gets reduced. That is one bad.
The other bad is that under Arnie, the State of California has reduced corporate taxes more that two billion dollars:
"At a time when deep cuts are being proposed to education, health care, and human services, a new analysis by the California Budget Project (CBP), a nonpartisan public policy research group, finds that corporate tax cuts included in the September 2008 and February 2009 budget agreements will result in a loss of $2 billion a year, and potentially as much as $2.5 billion a year, in tax revenues, an amount equal to nearly a quarter of the income tax dollars currently paid by California corporations."
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2009/06/b…
What the hell, eh? They probably deserve it anyway.
Amazing how socialism is just fine for those that have. 😡
That whole scenario is a bad/bad situation. He cannot increase taxes to cover the deficit because a 2/3 majority of voters in local elections must agree to any more than a 1% increase. (Way – to – go, Ronnie Reagan). So the only option is to reduce spending – and we all know what gets reduced. That is one bad.
The other bad is that under Arnie, the State of California has reduced corporate taxes more that two billion dollars:
"At a time when deep cuts are being proposed to education, health care, and human services, a new analysis by the California Budget Project (CBP), a nonpartisan public policy research group, finds that corporate tax cuts included in the September 2008 and February 2009 budget agreements will result in a loss of $2 billion a year, and potentially as much as $2.5 billion a year, in tax revenues, an amount equal to nearly a quarter of the income tax dollars currently paid by California corporations."
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2009/06/b…
What the hell, eh? They probably deserve it anyway.