Obama’s budget good for Calif. parks, wildlife areas
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau
California would get its share, and then some, from the Obama administration’s $4 trillion budget proposal delivered Monday to a skeptical, Republican-controlled Congress.
There’s money for restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which is likely to survive congressional winnowing. Proposed upgrades at places including Yosemite National Park probably will find Capitol Hill favor, as well, along with funding for Central Valley flood control and dam improvements.
The budget, for instance, would offer $3.5 million to complete the Army Corps of Engineers’ design and engineering studies for protecting the Sacramento area’s Natomas Basin. It would provide tens of millions of dollars to upgrade Folsom Dam northeast of Sacramento and improve the safety of the earthen Isabella Dam in eastern Kern County. These projects enjoy bipartisan support.
But the president’s budget includes more fanciful proposals, including some familiar spending cuts and fee increases that invariably fail. A renewed proposal to eliminate the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, for instance, would cut federal reimbursements for prisons and jails that incarcerate undocumented immigrants.
Yeah, keep giving the people just enough of their own money back to convince them that the Federal government is looking out for their best interests and should continue to keep the same crooked people in charge. The voters really are that stupid.
First one’s free, Kid.
Well Dog, maybe more politicians should be like Tea Party favorite Scott Walker of Wisconsin who cut $300 million from the university system budget, but has no problem spending $500 million on a new sports stadium!
It’s ALL money stolen out of our pockets, regardless of who is spending it on what.
Why are the people running the government better equipped to decide how OUR hard earned money is spent than WE are?
It isn’t money stolen out of our pockets if the Congress and President approve a budget based only on NEEDS not WANTS.
Sometime I’d like to see a budget created on a blank piece of paper where only the defined NEEDS of the federal government are addressed. Use the Constitution to define the categories. Decide the few roles the federal government is supposed to address by law and only fund those. (National Defense, Interstate commerce, Foreign commerce, and a few more) Everything beyond that is a State government role and funding decided at a more local level.
Keep using this method for budgeting and you’ll see the States moving funding to the Counties and the Cities.
Then you’ll have spending decisions made by the people who pay rather than “I’ll vote to spend my constituents money on your pet project if you’ll do the same for me” politics.
Good luck with that ever happening.
Dogs rant of the day, same ol same ol, bla, bla, bla…YAWN
With a current four trillion in national debt there is an interest payment now in the billions and this is with historic low interest rates, once these rates change the payment on interest alone will climb towards hundreds of billions. This is insane debt to carry in an unstable world, one that will require increasing military action, at least by the next administration who will be left with the mess and the danger, there will also be a very large defense budget required to combat Islamic murderers who are on the move and another priority is securing the borders, and dealing with millions of illegal entries. To propose more federal domestic spending on parks and rivers and dams for flood control in a drought is wrong when billions were already spent on the same projects the last six years and the state can do it through bonds already passed. Hard choices and cuts are required for federal domestic spending not relating to security and defense and eliminating entire duplicate federal agencies is a good step and stopping unlimited welfare and SSI and section 8 housing with limited time frames before they bankrupt the country is a must.
Just@ass. Give it up… you have no idea what you are typing. Interest rates have been low for years now, and that “boggie man raising interest rates” scare tactic died years ago too.
Rock4brains; you have nothing to offer except excuses and leftist cover ups. You have zero information and impact or knowledge on when interest rates will move, same for the debt crises, the economy or defense. Did you see the last election results yet? Or are you still waiting for Hussein’s spin on the liberals biggest defeats since the 1920’s? You and your party are now neutered thankfully.
Justanass. Still….