Opinion: In Wednesday’s Letters to the editor
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California’s still-delayed budget dominates Wednesday’s letters.
Readers, not surprisingly, are disgusted with the stalemate in Sacramento.
Bobbi Campbell of Los Angeles writes:
Count this ‘valued’ state worker as one of the losers in the current proposed budget. I have devoted more than 21 years to state service, working in an environment in which I have been hit, scratched and spit on. I am being furloughed two days a month, getting an almost 10% pay cut. Now I read that I also will be receiving another gift from the state government in the form of higher taxes. I can see that the only clear winners are big corporations. No wonder Colorado is recruiting Californians to move there. It is starting to sound like a good idea.
Several letter writers take Republicans to task for intransigence, such as Los Angeles’ Michael Mahler, who writes:
Because Republican lawmakers believe that it is better to have no state government than to pay for it, the governor should suspend projects and services in their districts and use the savings to fund them in the rest of the state.
But others, like Costa Mesa’s David O’Shea, lay blame with California’s Democrats:
Why does The Times continually paint the budget picture as one last Republican causing all the trouble? The real trouble is the Democratic majority, which doesn’t understand living within your means and cutting the budget to fit the funds at hand. Cut, fire, starve people -- whatever it takes to remove the 40% spending increase since Gov. Gray Davis was recalled.
As of Wednesday morning, legislators still hadn’t put together a deal. Expect more disgusted letters to the editor as the days drag on.