No State Senate weekend vote on budget
By Ben van der Meer, PolitickerCA.com Senior ReporterAdding to the likelihood that Sunday's budget vote in the State Assembly will be in vain, the State Senate is not scheduled to meet for a budget vote this weekend.
A brief note Friday afternoon from the office of State Sen. Pro Temp Don Perata (D-Oakland) said senators would not meet over the weekend, with a note that the situation could change.
The State Assembly will vote Sunday on a budget for 2008-09, but most expect the vote to fail to get a necessary two-thirds vote, because the proposed budget is not expected to get the necessary Republican votes.
Any budget must pass by a two-thirds margin in both the State Assembly and Senate before going to the governor for his signature. The state budget is 46 days overdue, and many expect a budget solution to include ballot measures that voters would need to approve in the fall.
The California Secretary of State has warned state legislators that they have only days to put any such measure on the Nov. 4 ballot.
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What caused the massive budget deficit and unemployment?
What do you think as caused the massive budget meltdown and escalating unemployment in California?
Let's face it confronting the huge budget deficit, brought upon the people of California from 'Sanctuary city' policies and allowing illegal aliens access to state, county and city welfare programs has caused a major disaster. Now Arnold and the state morons must look for other means to extract taxes and dollar bills from property owners to keep overcrowded schools running , the free health care (illegal alien) system and make room in the also overburdened prisons. The assembly is overrun with Latino radicals who reserve the right, to allow the influx of as many illegal third world country cheap labor force that can spirit into the border states. Arnold seems to have lost his way, or been intimidated by the Democratic-Liberal-Socialist makeup in Sacramento's assembly.
The major malefactor is the predatory employers, who hire cheap slave labor because its easy to exploit them. Chasing down illegal immigrants is mainly a waste of time, because their are millions of them, as they are being attracted by jobs. Giving ICE more funding and training regular police departments with more enforcement powers against the company CEO, directors or managers is a serious deterrent.
If the E-verify system becomes mandatory and businesses become paranoid of the next ICE, sweep. Knowing that massive fines confiscation of assets and prison. Therefore our government must go after the pariah businesses, because they are the culprits and they must be held accountable.
Appropriations of money and equipment would come from enactment of the Federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088). Funding from bill is but a few cents, for what federal, state, county and local government expenditures are now to financial support illegal alien families.We cannot even comprehend the amount of money expounded, if AMNESTY becomes law.
It's also unthinkable if we keep underwriting illegal immigrants, while their employers collect the profits. Then their are the millions waiting quietly just over the undermanned border. YOU are the payee, the taxpayer? You need to realize the implications of irreversible OVERPOPULATION. Go to NUMBERSUSA, CAPSWEB, to learn the real truth and not the propaganda.
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