[Brian Allen]

<< Cutting $40B from the budget overnight is not even close to realistic. >>

Try telling that one to Bank of America Mastercard or to Wells Fargo Visa.

Mr McLintock is Right-on on this one.

And there is is no Forty Billion Dollars.

It does not exist.

Its owners-to-be have not yet created it and the state gummint has no more right to squander it than it does to confiscate it -- as is Arnold's desire -- from people not even born yet or yet snuck feloniously across our northern, eastern, western and/or southern borders!

[onyx]

I haven't even gotten around to forming an opinion the bond thang. The point is McC couldn't wait to voice his objection (sans his lofty solutions) of course.