[lbo-talk] California Bleeding II

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Tue Nov 25 23:38:53 PST 2003


Duncan Campbell reports on the onslaught of the Terminator: (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1093318,00.html)


> One cut of $385m would end home cleaning, care and transport for around 75,000
> elderly and disabled people, according to the draft proposal published
> yesterday in the LA Times. A further $282m would be saved by cutting art,
> music and camping trip programmes for around 626,000 Californians with
> mental or physical disabilities.
> Another $200m would be removed from recruitment programmes run by the
> University of California and California State University, requiring the
> institutions to make other unspecified cuts.
> A potential $77m would be saved by freezing admission to a project called
> Healthy Families aimed at the working poor.

Campbell also found this juicy quote:


> "It's almost like a necessary pain that we have to go through," Kevin
> McCarthy, the new Republican assembly leader, told the LA Times. "We have
> had a cancer growing on our budget and to cure this we are going to have to
> go through the chemo."

There it is, in black and white: the Republicans really do regard the old, the differently abled, the students and the poor as mere cancer cells on the body politic.

-- DRR



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