Baudouin Prot is much to this distinctionOn the year the firm IDC anticipates a decline of 1Polls are fleeting grudges are tenacious4 billion of dollars of aid promised in 2007Such a level of excellence is not improvisedI thedo so with conviction and enthusiasmHe had that Boeing buys 5 of the EADS sharesthe rise of this debate in the United StatesA rule which is not about to be dethronedThe microbiological analysis of urine is 6Arnold Schwarzenegger failed to untangle the Gordian knot of California finance, despite his promises to campaign in 2003. Facing a budget deficit of $ 24.3 billion and the inability to make loans, Parliament has been unable to find an agreement on the budget for the fiscal year which began yesterday. The Democrat majority refused the cuts in social programs advocated by the Republicans and they refuse the increase in taxes on cigarettes and gasoline proposed by Democrats. However the adoption of the budget requires two-thirds majority. The Governor of the State the most populous of the United States said yesterday in the afternoon the fiscal emergency to compel members to meet in special session to deal with the problem. "The time is dark". We are witnessing a shipwreck to idle. "I've never seen anything like", said Mark DiCamillo, Director of the Institute of political and economic survey Field Poll.
Leave without pay
While the negotiations continue in Sacramento, finance controller John Chiang will start now to replace certain payments from the State for an amount of more than 3 billion of ious. The Governor also announced his intention to impose a third monthly day of leave without pay to 220,000 employees. The Office of economic studies of the University of California, Anderson Forecast, prognosis the layoff of 60,000 civil servants.
At the same time, local authorities will be forced to reduce their benefits in health and education, lack of adequate contribution of the State. The "community colleges, which provide including the continuing education of adults and have recently seen a sensitive growth of their workforce due to the increase of unemployment, will reduce their supply of courses for the re-entry and increase their rates.
Anger began hanging in the opinion, including fears layoffs of teachers. Hundreds of demonstrators denounced the week last in San Diego the impact of the fiscal crisis on the poor.
Reduction in benefits
"It is the worst situation we have known since the 1930s, says Scott Graves, policy analyst for the Institute for fiscal studies California Budget Project. But, in reality, the budgetary crisis lasts since 2001. Here is therefore eight years that the Government cut spending at the margin and compromises little by little the capacity of social services to successfully accomplish their mission.
Several spending cuts decided last February during the revision of mid-year budget exceptional emergency came into effect yesterday. First affected: 1.3 million elderly or disabled eligible for financial assistance from the State and 1.3 million beneficiaries of the programme of assistance to poor families. The reduction of the funds of the Healthy Families program could also deprive children 600,000 disadvantaged health coverage.
Experts point out that California will continue to sink into an inextricable financial situation as long as its structural problems will not be solved: a redistricting which perpetuates the partisan divide of Parliament; two-thirds majority required for the adoption increases, fees and taxes, and for the passage of the budget the electoral term limit, which gives the advantage of the experience the lobbyists; and the brake to the increase in property taxes by a referendum in 1978.
Salvation may come from a constitutional revision that twenty of associations calling for their. The RepairCalifornia coalition provides together 800,000 signatures to submit the draft to the general election in November 2010. Unless the Parliament is the double speed... qualified two-thirds majority. An ad hoc Committee must begin to floor on the issue this month.
