[goldstategop]

Arnold wants a constitutional spending cap. This is a RINO? Gray Davis would NEVER have even proposed one. So far the conservative Governator is off to a fast start.

[kattracks]

BTTT

[randita]

As I recall, nearly half of CA's $100 billion budget is spending mandated by law (education, state worker's pensions, social services, etc.). To balance the budget, it will require some changes to the laws mandating those expenditures or an absolute hatchet job on the remaining discretionary budget items.

[RightFighter]

I'm trying to register at the LA Times website so that I can view the whole article. Funny - the following usernames were rejected because they already exist in the system:

latimessucks
fthelatimes
timessucks

But it did finally allow me to register using "suckylatimes"

[daviddennis]

Supporters of spending caps say they would fix the boom-bust cycle that has plagued the state's budget. Critics say the cost of many government services, including schools and health care, has increased faster than the overall inflation rate and that a cap would thus eventually cripple state programs.

Maybe the real problem is that programs aren't forced to become efficient, and they expand forever as long as there is money available.

It's sort of like you and me; if you doubled my salary, I'd buy that Apple Cinema HD Display I've had my eye on. Since government budgeting is based on continual increases from the previous year's expenditures, next year I would have enough money to do it again. That's how budgets ratchet up, and we have to change that in order to take control over our deficit.

Worse yet, once I got my Cinema Display, I apparently became much more interested in in admiring it than actually getting work done. Thus, more money is spent, but we become a lot less efficient, which is shameful.

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