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Governator's budget plan eliminates billions from state programs

By Richard Binder

Faced with a ballooning deficit and a clear signal that voters won't pay more to fix it, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a budget plan Tuesday that would eliminate welfare, drop 1 million poor children from health insurance, cut off new grants for college students and shut down 80 percent of state parks.

Ending cash assistance for 1.3 million impoverished state residents would make California the only state with no welfare program.

Also, in the prisons, rehabilitation, education and vocational programs will also be cut. Nonviolent, non-serious offenders would go free a year early.

Schwarzenegger had warned before last week's special election that if voters did not approve a host of tax and budget-reform measures, stunning cuts to social services, education and other vital state programs would be necessary.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on May 27, 2009 (boomark / email).