Republicans Hold California Budget Hostage to Slow Progress on Global Warming

This hold up disgust me. The decide to hold all of us hostage while they try to get their way in regards to the State budget. I run four facilities for developmentally disabled children and we are funded 100% through medi-cal. Since last week we have not received any payments what so ever. The sad thing is that we will have to close our doors. Why don't these Republican senator come down to my facilities and explain to my staff why we will need to shut down by the end of August because we have no money to meet our payrolls. I would like them to go with us to the banks and explain to the bank how we want to secure a personal loan but don't have a clue when we will be able to pay them back. I want them to come and look into the eyes of a child who can not speak and convey their disgust and the Republican tactics, who can not say they need this care or will die without it. Even if the budget gets approved by today, we will not start to see any payments until two weeks from now because that is the way Medi-cal works. So for now we wait and see. Hopefully, by the time these MEN decide to stop playing God, we will still be open.

May God shed light in their hard Republican hearts so that they may see the damage they are doing.

Surely there is at least one more Republican who has it in his/her heart to hear the cries of those who will suffer by the delay of passing this budget. To hold the budget hostage over non fiscal issues when the Governator has already said he would blue line out $700 million, is really unacceptable. Each and every one of these Republican holdouts should be ashamed of this behavior.

Reply to Educator,

Unless 8 republicans agree, no republican will vote for the budget. Democrats can make this all go away quickly if they were just give Republicans what they want. Democrats can do it the easy way, or the hard way. It makes no difference to republicans as this state will not a have budget until Republican get what they want, period. We might just go a year without state budget if Democrats do not give in, that is not really a concern of Republicans.

I am a disabled senior increasingly disappointed that the party I have supported becomes less honest, more self-indulgent, amoral, disrespectful, manipulative and hard-hearted with each passing year. It places wealth for the few far above human rights for all.
Your blocking the passing and signing of our 2007 state budget feels to be a control issue. People are suffering unjustly because you are preventing employees from being paid for work they have already done and funding is insultingly withheld from programs that affect the poor, elderly, disabled - people who suffer for personal and corporate greed.
I believe the GOP is shooting itself in the foot and could be directly responsible for AGAIN putting Democrats in our State Capitol and the White House. I shudder to think of either of certain candidates as Leader of our State and Country.
PLEASE SIGN THE BUDGET! HELP OUR STATE TO BE THE PROGRESSIVE STATE. GIVE RIGHTS TO OUR CITIZENS NO MATTER THEir ECONOMIC STATUS.
SIGN THE BUDGET! PLEASE SIGN THE BUDGET!

Reply to Terri,

Budget will be signed as soon as Democrats give Republicans what they want. Call your Democratic representative and urge them to give in to Republican demands, as until then their will be no budget. Reading the press release i would think everyone would understand that clearly, to me it was clear not sure maybe it is not clear to everyone

The problem the Republicans see is that the AB32 classifies CO2 as a pollutant and the Attorney General Moonbeam Gerry Brown is using the Older CEQA as a weapon to stop development by lawsuits against local and county governments. And, even worse, self-appointed Environmentalist extremists will be able to file similar lawsuits to stop refinery expansion, freeway building, construction of power stations, and housing development.

This would be a disaster for California because population growth pressures are going to make the current energy infrastructure to break down if construction is stopped, and housing costs will go even higher if the supply does not expand.

And, many Republicans do not believe man's emissions of CO2 are causing Global Warming and the restrictions on growth in infrastructure for this reason is pointless. And, it will cost billions of dollars and make absolutely no difference to the climate.

And, even the most sincere believers in man's role in Global Warming by CO2 emissions admit that this is theory, not a proven fact. (the UN Panel says 80% confidence level) Imagine what California would be like if the theory of Global Cooling (a mass delusion it turns out), produced the same growth restrictions which the Democrats want to put us into.

The Republicans cannot just vote it down because they are a minority, but, if legislation like the budget requires a 75% plurality then this gambit on the part of the Republicans is the only way to avoid an energy and housing crisis.

The Democrats must believe that these Environmental programs will not disrupt the state economy. I can imagine that if they win this battle and Gasoline goes to $9 a gallon, that we have rolling blackout in power, housing prices doubling, and people unable to affort homes or apartments, that they will blame the Republicans. But, the voters will remember that it was the Democrats who did this.

I expect the Democrats to be the first to complain if the economy goes sour over this, but it will be their fault, and the fault of the Governor to pass laws that make no scientific sense.

Increasingly, the world is starting to understand that the whole Global Warming industry is a political, not a scientific matter, even the scientists who were on the United Nations panel are coming forward to say the conclusions of the reports misreport their findings, and that there is no scientific consensus to support the new mass delusion of man's role in Global Warming.

And, even though the UN panel said there was an 80% confidence level in their findings, scientists who work in statitics say that a confidence level of AT LEAST 95% is needed to claim that the theory is proven.

Now, it is a ridiculous situation for the budget to be held hostage like this causing problems for thousands of people who depend on State program funds, but it is the Democrats who are insisting that the environmental laws be enforced (unreasonably in my opinion) when the law (AB32) is not even supposed to be effective until 2012. And, it is sure to cripple California's economy.

Why should we take a chance that billions of dollars are wasted, when it is not proven that man is causing this, and even if the temperature goes up by two degrees in a hundred years, the Democrats call this a crisis? And, they cannot wait until 2012?

I call it a crime.

California Senators are full of it. If they were seeing for Californian they would pass the bill for solar and wind power devises to be use in 2005. So who are they fooling. Oh yea! they want to catch-up with Bush and fatten their pockets.

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