A program that has helped thousands of mentally ill homeless people avoid the cycle of hospitalization, jails and street life - a program that more than pays for itself in saved prison and hospital costs, to say nothing of the lives it enriches - is cut from the California budget.
What's saved? A tax break for yacht owners, that costs almost as much. After all, Senate Republican Leader Dick Ackerman owns a yacht... and we all know who the state should help more, yacht owners or the mentally ill homeless.
And make no mistake - this was a line item veto by Arnold. He knew well what he was doing. Any hope he would be a centrist force for the general welfare, as opposed to yet another captive of Republican special interests, further disappears. He fits right in with the national Republican party's movement to loot the public treasury of our hard-earned tax dollars for their own enrichment.
Perhaps it's time for another recall.... yea, even a Total Recall!
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