Governator Has Us Truly Facing Judgement Day...

Well California is in complete financial shambles. Yesterday we had a special election that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was trying to use to help fix some of the huge budget issues that the state has been facing. The measures that were voted on yesterday included raising taxes, spending reforms and changes in borrowing and funding. 5 of the 6 did not pass and the state continues to grow a bigger deficit. Analysts have estimated that the budget deficit could balloon from $15 billion to $21 billion, forcing the state to take some desperate measures. This could include shortening the school year by a week and a half, cutting tens of thousands of education jobs, eliminating health insurance for 250,000 needy children, laying off 1,700 firefighters, withholding $2 billion from local governments — which could mean cuts in police forces and other services — and freeing almost 40,000 inmates from San Quentin prison. This has others asking how bad it would be if California goes bankrupt.

Gov. Schwarzenegger has run this state into the ground since taking office. Many friends, family and former co-workers of mine are being effected not just in these layoffs but also the inability to find another job once they are unemployed. If anyone is interested in seeing the results of the voting and the propositions in more detail they can click here. It pisses me off to the point that when I go see Terminator Salvation this week (it looks amazing lol) even though he is not in this one, it feels like I'm giving something to him for going to watch a movie of a franchise he help build lol. Anyway, I'm not sure how the state will fare in the coming weeks and months but I really hope that the politicians in Sacramento do something soon before it gets even worse (which is hard to imagine).