As this article points out:

With its huge economy stalled and state revenues plunging, California has descended into its worst budget crisis in a decade and is now facing an excruciating round of budget cuts and possible tax increases... "That's a hole so deep and so vast that even if we fired every single person on the state payroll - every park ranger, every college professor and every Highway Patrol officer - we would still be more than $6 billion short," said the Assembly speaker, Herb J. Wesson Jr., a Democrat.

I just hope and pray that Alondra is not inconvenienced in any way.