1. Political Science 173 Government and Politics of California Christian Lindke clind006@ucr.edu

2. Your Representative (Participation) Visit www.assembly.ca.gov, find your representative, and write the representative a letter about an issue you believe to be important.www.assembly.ca.gov Print out a copy for me.

5. Prop 98 and Budget Proposition 98 is a complex formula for setting a minimum annual funding level for K-12 schools and community colleges. (1988) 2014 – 40.6% of Budget

6. The Full Budget

7. What Percentage of Budget? Education K - 12 Higher Education Health and Human Services

8. Four Basic Characteristics of Budgets A plan that specifies what monies will be spent (expenditures) and how those moneys will be obtained (revenues). A budget is a government’s premier public policy statement. Budgeting is profoundly political. Budgeting is a contract…short term contracts.

9. Where does the Budget Come From?

10. Constraints on Budget Process 1. The need for supermajority (pre-2010) 2. The Annual Budget Myth 3. Cruise Control Spending (entitlements) 4. Narrow Spending (categorical spending) 5. Third Rail Issues (Prop 13, Tax Increases) 6. Ballot-Box Budgeting (Earmarking)

11. What about the Federal Govt?

12. Continued 1. Social security, Medicare, and other retirement: These programs provide income support for the retired and disabled and medical care for the elderly. 2. National defense, veterans, and foreign affairs: About 19% of outlays were to equip, modernize, and pay our armed forces and to fund national defense activities; 3% were for veterans benefits and services; and about 1% were for international activities, including military and economic assistance to foreign countries and the maintenance of United States embassies abroad. 3. Physical, human, and community development: These outlays were for agriculture; natural resources; environment; transportation; aid for elementary and secondary education and direct assistance to college students; job training; deposit insurance, commerce and housing credit, and community development; and space, energy, and general science programs. 4. Social programs: About 14% of total outlays were for Medicaid, food stamps, temporary assistance for needy families, supplemental security income, and related programs; and the remaining outlays were for health research and public health programs, unemployment compensation, assisted housing, and social services.