20 days and still no sign of land!

Steven Greenhut: Here is a GOP statement regarding the ongoing budget mess. Perhaps, as one conservative activist suggested to me, the GOP legislators should show up at the Capitol ready to produce a budget and wait for the Democrats to show up also. They can have a daily press conference asking, “Where’s the leadership?”

From the GOP:

Today California is 20 days into the new fiscal year without a budget plan in place.  In 20 days the amount of overspending has now surpassed $1 billion dollars.  Assembly Republican Leader Martin Garrick and Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth released the following joint statement on the status of budget negotiations:

“The state’s overspending tab has now surpassed $1 billion with the budget 20 days late, as Democrats delay spending reductions.  Each day that passes without a balanced budget in place California’s government spends $52.3 million more than it receives in revenues.  Republicans are united behind a responsible plan to close a $19.1 billion deficit, while Democrats refuse to cut spending and continue to push for tax increases to fuel this unsustainable spending.”


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