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June 28, 2009 (LPAC)—The latest threat issued by the wildly out-of-control Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is that he will order a third furlough day each month for state employees, if the legislature does not pass a balanced budget by July 1. This would mean that at least 215,000 state employees would have three furlough days per month, i.e., unpaid days off, which amounts to a 14% pay cut. The reason there has been no budget passed is that the state has a $24 billion deficit, and Schwarzenegger is demanding brutal, murderous cuts in social services and health care, allegedly to achieve a balanced budget.

Schwarzenegger said this de facto pay cut is designed to conserve cash, as the Controller, John Chiang, reported last week that the state will face a cash shortfall of $2.78 billion for the month of July, the first month of the new fiscal year. Chiang said that the shortfall will force him to issue IOUs to pay vendors, and for payments to low-income disabled and elderly Californians. Schwarzenegger, the son-of-a-Nazi, has been refusing to negotiate with legislators, sticking obsessively to his demand that they accept his draconian budget, or there will be none at all. His concern to save cash is completely phony, as he refused a Democratic proposal on Wednesday which would have postponed some payments, to avoid the need to issues IOUs. The total savings from a third furlough day would be just $61 million in July, not even close to the amount needed to avoid issuing IOUs, but a further indication that he is committed to a balanced budget by looting the poorest and most vulnerable, while crushing state employees in the process.

His goal is obviously not a balanced budget, but to terminate institutions of self-government, paving the way for a fascist dictatorship, governing on behalf of the financial and other globalist cartels which have given him millions of dollars to run his campaigns.