Posted on 01/10/2010 11:03:43 AM PST by NormsRevenge
There was a sobering symmetry between the first State of the State speech offered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the one he recited last week.
"Jobs, jobs, jobs," he said on Jan. 6, 2004, just months after winning .. the wacky recall election. "The more jobs the better. I am going to become California's Job Czar."
And on Jan. 6, 2010, delivering the last such speech of his governorship:
"The first priority for the coming year, obviously, is to get the economy and to get jobs back. Jobs, jobs, jobs."
That rhetoric was the same, but everything else seemed wearily different. State of the State speeches are often so programmed as to be almost meaningless: Thank your esteemed colleagues in the Legislature or insult them (Schwarzenegger has done both), recount the successes of the last year, toss out in glancing generality the road map for the coming year and leave the details for the release of the budget proposal a few days hence.
Schwarzenegger followed the script last week, declaring on Wednesday that "the worst is over" for California's economy and, on Friday, releasing a budget plan that would carve billions from education, healthcare and social services.
But between the lines, the speeches also illustrated the arc of change during the Schwarzenegger years. The man who exuded optimism in his first speech appeared, at least somewhat, to have succumbed to something approaching realism by his last. In tone, at least, if not in substance.
As a state, too, we have ridden the wave: Californians who optimistically cast their lot with an untested movie star now resemble survivors on a reality show, trying to figure out which bugs to swallow in order to stay alive. California's -- and Schwarzenegger's -- flamboyant optimism has proved to be no match for hard reality.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
We got aRnold and AB 32 and more debt than ya can haul in a convoy of dump trucks.
“Jobs, jobs, jobs”
Followed by:
Taxes, taxes, taxes
Spend, spend, spend
Immigration, immigration, immigration
Emigration, emigration, emigration
A winning jobs formula if there ever was one
Arnold and the entire California legislature is essentially running into the herds of wildebeest and zebra screaming “RUN AWAY! GO AWAY! ARRRGGGHHH!” and then coming back to the campfire and telling the tribe “we no eat meat again today: wildebeest and zebra all gone.”
State and local government jobs . About 100,000 in LEO . Probably need to fire about half of these and train and hire 200,000 more good ones , since we all can't just get along .
the number one job should be eliminate state benefits and education to all illegals and getting every illegal deported. That would generate billions of dollars of savings to the state and improve the employment picture for those remaining.
Will the last producer to leave California please turn off the lights?
>>the number one job should be eliminate state benefits and education to all illegals and getting every illegal deported. That would generate billions of dollars of savings to the state and improve the employment picture for those remaining.<<
That AND lowering taxes. Massively.
Arnold has created and increase the salaries of every government hack so his jobs creation has worked. They just created jobs fro people that do nothing.
Add - regulations, regulations, regulations
The new EPA air quality regs will be a jobs killer on rural CA where unemployment approaches 20%. http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=122394506&m=122395823
We need regulatory reform badly so that we can get back to developing our natural resources, which is the basis of all wealth creation. We particularly need CEQA reform to prevent lawsuits that tie up projects for years. We need more streamlined permitting processes where it doesn’t take two years and emptying your bank account to get a permit to build something. We need to back way off on climate change and other job killing initiatives.
As long as the state Govt. is run by the lunatic legislatures in the asylum of Sacto expect the same dismal economic results.
They are worried about fleecing more money from more people.
Period.
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