From KQED:
California’s Latin-fluent governor, as he likes to do, invoked the ancient language when asked what he would say to millions of the state’s citizens impacted by about $1 billion in automatic, and immediate, budget cuts.
“Nemo dat non habet,” said Governor Jerry Brown in a Capitol news conference. “It means, ‘No man gives what he does not have.'”
And with that, Brown’s administration pulled the trigger (or, perhaps, declared the pulling… you be the judge) on almost $981 in state budget spending — from higher education to child care subsidies to juvenile justice and beyond.
“We’re pulling our budget into line,” said the governor in discussing the cuts (PDF) — cuts which were written into the June budget agreement to be entirely dependent on (and thus “automatic”) projections of state revenues for the 12-month fiscal year that ends on June 30, 2012.
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