California’s Impasse On Its Budget Triggered Furloughs By The “Governator”

Bloomberg is reporting that some 150,000 state employers in California will be furloughed by Governor Schwarzenegger – this means that these employees will be forced to take three days of unpaid leave to save the state cash. California fiscal year started on July 1^st, but there have been no compromise on how to close its massive $19 billion budget loophole.  The governor’s executive order, allowing the furloughs, specifically stipulated and mandated that when a budget is passed, the furlough will end. The workers should be accustomed to furloughs because they have been enduring them for the past twelve months

One of the negative ramifications of the budget impasse will force California to start issuing IOUs by September. From the figures above, it is obvious that not all of California’s workers are subjected to this furlough mandate – patrol officers, forest firefighters, and psychiatric technicians, numbering 37,000, are exempted from the governor’s furloughs.

Does anyone find it ironic that California’s furloughs are happening on a day that Arizona lost its rights to prevent what might be a cause of California’s fiscal problems?  California’s open borders, giving deference to the Federal Law on Immigration law, sanctions and embraces “unfunded mandates” – it is why the “governator,” along with the California legislators cannot solve the $19 billion budget shortfall. I hope that the bean counters tally up those bills, which can be shown is a result of illegal immigration and send the bill to President Obama and Mexico.