Jerry Brown makes budget cuts for state budget.

On January 3, 2011, Jerry Brown returned to office after being held in it from 1975 to 1983. He is California's oldest governor at the age of 72. Brown has a history of spending $140 million by his Republican challenger Meg Whitman. Recently, Brown has created an $84.6 billion general fund spending plan that will specifically effect welfare, medi-cal, UC and CSU systems,developmentally disabled, and the state bureaucracy directly. Brown says ," it will be painful, requiring sacrifice from every sector of the state, but we have no choice." This budget cut concerns me because it also effects my fathers job, since he works for the UC  system. This budget cut may help California in the long run but it is a risk and  undoubtedly will be "painful".

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