Schwarzenegger to Close 220 State Parks

JWBear · 05-29-2009, 12:34 PM

We're only talking about $70 million. That's only .29% of the budget shortfall (and about .01% of the total state budget)! This is an unnescessary cut that will do nothing to solve the problem! It will destroy our state parks sytem and cost the state hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in lost tourism.

Ghoulish Delight · 05-30-2009, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by JWBear

We're only talking about $70 million. That's only .29% of the budget shortfall (and about .01% of the total state budget)! This is an unnescessary cut that will do nothing to solve the problem!

A bit of devils advocate - the budget shortfall is in excess of $40 billion dollars. EVERY single program that can be cut can be defended with the, "It's only a drop in the bucket anyway!" argument. There is no single place to cut that amounts to any large portion of the problem. The only way to proceed is to cut lots of small bits.

I'm not saying there aren't other good arguments against this move, but that particular one doesn't hold water.

05-29-2009, 12:34 PM	#1
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