According to the Associated Press, court-appointed receiver Clark Keslo is asking a judge to seize $8 billion from California’s treasury, at a time when California is already $15.2 billion in debt and facing additional cuts to services and potential higher taxes.

What does Mr. Keslo want the money for? So that he can “with a sense of firm conviction,” obtain funding mandated by the Federal government to improve the healthcare facilities of prisons! Yes, that bad place where they send bad people. We can’t even provide health care for the good people of California, yet this jerk wants to provide better health care for prisoners who already receive better healthcare than many of the state’s population. If a prisoner needs health care that cannot be provided at the prison’s facilities, the prisoner is transferred to a local hospital for treatment. While there, deputies are paid overtime to stand guard over the prisoner, even if they are too ill to go anywhere.

If the prison system is over-crowded and under-funded, fine. Take drastic measures like paroling (not just setting free) non-violent offenders. Make violators of the law pay higher fines and penalties. But don’t break the piggy bank just to hand it to the bad guys!

I’m disgusted.