The California State Budget -- By The Numbers

From the Sacramento Bee - Capitol Alert

AM Alert: By the numbers

Since you are probably as sick of reading all the budget rhetoric as we are of writing it, here's a rundown on the standoff. In cold, hard numbers:

70: Days into the 2008-09 fiscal year without a state budget.

$4.25 billion: Payments that state Controller John Chiang couldn't make in July and August because of the missing budget.

$7.6 billion: Payments that will go unmade in September if there's no budget.

$1.1 million: Amount that state lawmakers will earn this month, more or less (though they won't be paid until after a budget passes). This doesn't include per diem.

0: How many times California lawmakers and the governor have taken this long in years past to finish a budget.

873: Number of bills that state lawmakers have passed but not sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

342: Senate bills being withheld.

531: Assembly bills being withheld.

0: Number of bills Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said (on Aug. 6) that he would sign before there was a budget.

1: Number of bills Schwarzenegger has signed so far. (He broke his pledge in order to sign AB 3034, which amended the high speed rail measure on the November ballot.)

10,300: Temporary employees the governor laid off by executive order.

$6.55: The federal minimum hourly wage -- and the amount Schwarzenegger wants to pay state workers to conserve cash during the budget crunch.

0: State workers who have been paid the federal minimum wage.

85: Days since the state constitutional deadline (June 15) to pass the 2008-09 state budget.

125: Days until the constitutional date (Jan. 10) that Schwarzenegger must present the 2009-10 budget.

0 percent: Chance that Senate Democrats will pass the GOP budget plan, which is expected to be put up for a vote at 2 p.m. today.

Comments

[Laisseraller]

Short Excerpt:

State’s Assembly two party impasses because of strategies

and tactics used to approve/disapprove of budget decisions.

Delaying decisions beyond acceptable time standards.

Local man’s solution: Use a “Coin Toss Inertia Reducer “

New machine invention.
--
This would be a great story to run
with the Latest State's budget
news this next week.
"For 100 years the state assembly
have assumed their two party
strategies and tactics
"Rule. " New invention has just
proved them wrong."
A peg a photo of the invention can
be supplied.

[georgia thomas]

Mr. Governor now that your are american citizen it might be in your best interst sign the budget. surely as you live there will come a day that you may be old and need the assistance of a certified nursing assistant to feed and clothe you no matter what you economic status is. history shows that people of your race do in deep after no more use place for their love ones they placed them in nursing home and depend on others to care for them until they die...
please do not forget this!!