Governor Schwarzenegger!!!

[Miller]

It’s like 30 million people woke up the Monday after a three-day bender and realized what was in bed with them.

[SPOOFE]

When the government can’t provide basic services because of the gigantic deficit, ask yourself then if the citizens have won.

Just what do you consider “basic services”? Paying for illegal immigrants to have driver’s licenses?

[dantheman]

Er… No. Why would you think that?

Basic services would include government offices (such as the motor vehicles offices, of course) and infrastructure, to name two.

[kiwiboy]

How about buying new equipment, entering into service contracts or paying for exisiting contracts?

1. State agencies and departments shall not enter into any new contracts or agreements to lease or purchase equipment, except as may be determined by the Director of Finance to be in the best interest of the State.

2. State agencies and departments shall not enter into any new services contract, or make any changes to an existing contract that would increase the amount or extend the term of such a contract, except as may be determined by the Director of Finance to be in the best interest of the State. Provided, however, that the provisions of this paragraph 2 shall not apply to any contract for legal services or for expert testimony in pending litigation.

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4. Where permissible by law and regulations, all state agencies and departments are ordered to disencumber non-essential contracts or purchase agreements funded from the General Fund, where goods and services have not been received, and to cancel the related contracts.

From the governators Executive Order dated 5 December 2003.