Schwarzenegger has list for Bush - Governor-elect says the state is shortchanged by Washington

OC Register ^ | 10/15/03 | Scott Lindlaw - AP

[lonestar]

Do you imagine this headline a few years ago:

"Peanut Farmer to Host Mid-East Summit"

LOL! They didn't want to make the other peanut farmers mad.

[GraniteStateConservative]

The feds don't have that many real jobs-- protecting the borders is one of them and I'd demand the feds pay for sealing the border and jailing illegals and deporting them. The feds push all kinds of unfunded mandates on states like Sp-Ed. It should all be ended immediately. If the feds want the states to do something, the feds should pay for it. Better yet, leave the states the hell alone.

[GraniteStateConservative]

If Arnold can get a budget that cuts spending and doesn't raise taxes, I'd support a big payout-- to be used for savings or for transportation upgrades in the state.

[jmcclain19]

CA, and New York are, I believe, the only ones that pay more than they get - Most get back much more.

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/california/story/7292896p-8237496c.html

[tophat9000]

He vowed to recover "more than $50 billion" from the federal government, saying the state pays more money to Washington than it gets back.

Ah the state pays money to Washington?...

What did the "The state" pay to the Fed? ...Is he talking about the taxes I and ever other federal tax payer pays to Washington ... I'm not sure "the state" of California paid any of this $50 billion... instead every individual California and California business paid these taxes to the federal ...just like everyone else in the rest of the U.S did....

If your going to give the money back to any one give it back to he people who paid it in...

The answer is: Cut spending in California

[petercooper]

"He vowed to recover "more than $50 billion" from the federal government, saying the state pays more money to Washington than it gets back."

isn't the job of US Senators to look out for their own states interests?

what do boxer and fienstein do anyway?

[Question_Assumptions]

When New Jersey gets even 80 cents back for every dollar it sends to Washington (the real amount is less than 70 cents), I'll be willing to listen to other states talk about being "short changed".

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[pogo101]

Beat me to it. I guess in Bob Mulholland's world, there's no legislative branch. Stalinist dreams ...

[Hildy]

Now, the Republicans are fully responsible for the economic mess from Washington to Sacramento," Mulholland said.

What can you say to that.

[pogo101]

instead of talking about cutting spanding and perhaps cutting some of the state's massive socialist welfare programs, he wantts more taxpayer dollars form the federal government

Sorry to interrupt your I Hate Arnold parade, but actually, he's been talking about both. It's just that THIS article highlights the latter.

And, as to the latter, all I've heard Arnold discuss is reimbursement for the federal government's unfunded mandate that the state NOT cut off illegal immigrants from social services, the net (i.e., after accounting for benefits such as cheap labor) marginal cost of which last year was $12B. How much did your state spend last year on social services to illegals -- something that the federal courts have barred California from reducing?

[NormsRevenge]

anywhere from 5 - 7 billion , I bet, probably on the high side.

[k2blader]

"By the time I'm through with this whole thing, I will not be known as the Terminator; I will be known as the Collectinator," Schwarzenegger said on the stump.

I know (R)nold's supposed to be a "fiscal conservative," but the above so poorly reflects that.