Bill Boyarsky: State budget crisis calls for action
If there was ever a time for Jewish parents to fight for Los Angeles public schools, this is it.
If there was ever a time for Jewish parents to fight for Los Angeles public schools, this is it.
If you study the state budgets over the last few years as I have, you would see that we have had a deficit at the end of each year that keeps getting larger each and every year. Even when revenues were perceived to be at a peak, we were outspending those revenues. The state budget began each year in the hole that just got deeper as the months went by.
What have our military expenditures to do with the state of the states? After all, we are a long way from the guns vs. butter arguments, when we used to show how many new schools or hospitals could be built for the cost of one new aircraft carrier.
Gov. Gray Davis\’ proposed state budget for 2002-2003 has local Jewish organizations worried. With the state\’s approximately $12 billion deficit (in a proposed $98 billion budget) covered by program cuts, along with loans and spending deferrals, local agencies such as Jewish Family Service (JFS) and Jewish Vocational Service may face a significant reduction in funding.