[NormsRevenge]

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I wasn't a big fan of Arnold's during the election - but anybody who tries to shrink a state government can't be all bad.

[Mo1]

Seems Arnold is on a roll

[KellyAdmirer]

The legislators quoted don't seem to understand the meaning of the phrase "fiscal emergency." Sure, find something else to cut, always something else, what you picked on is just too vital to cut. Always too vital, and the next thing will be too vital, too.

Some were saying Arnold showed no signs of wanting to cut anything, well, the Arnold doubters are proven wrong once again - though of course they will say "this isn't enough" and all the other nonsense that critics come up with when they don't get precisely what they demand, immediately.

[goldstategop]

The Democrats and special interest groups are squealing. They want higher taxes to cover the shortfall. Listen - here we have a RINO who is acting like a fiscal conservative while our compassionate conservative President is increasing spending! I just don't get the negative reaction of some Freepers to Arnold while they back almost everything President Bush does.

[Uncle Hal]

Cut it more. $1.9 billion is not enough.

[Bush2000]

"It illustrates the difficulty of translating general talk about cuts into specifics," said Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento.

Translation: "We [the legislature] are a bunch of pussies without any backbone."

[FairOpinion]

Here it is in a "list format":

Schwarzenegger's three-prong fiscal reform plan
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/11/25/state2038EST0145.DTL

Tuesday, November 25, 2003
(11-25) 17:38 PST (AP) --

Here's a look at new Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's three-prong plan for breaking California's boom-bust spending cycle:

= Immediately cut spending by about $1.9 billion. Use executive orders and new budget-cutting powers to trim as much as an additional $2 billion from current spending. Present additional cuts during his Jan. 10 budget address.

Among the $1.9 billion in cuts he proposed to legislators:

-Postpone transportation projects. Savings: $530 million.

-Cut higher education. Savings: $160 million.

-Reduce Medi-Cal provider rates 10 percent. Savings: $152 million.

-Eliminating state wage assistance to the staff of long-term care facilities. Savings: $46 million.

-End respite care and recreational activities for the developmentally disabled. Savings: $69 million.

-Postpone vehicle license fee reimbursements to local governments: Savings: $475 million.

-Postpone flood control reimbursements to local governments. Savings: $105 million.

= Persuade voters to borrow $15 billion to replace about $13 billion worth of bonds approved by the Legislature in the current budget, but which face court challenges. The administration says the remainder also would replace unspecified current borrowing.

= Change the Constitution to cap spending at the rate of inflation and population growth. The governor could spend the resulting "rainy day" fund in a fiscal emergency, and could trim spending midyear unless two-thirds of lawmakers approved an alternative.

[ladyinred]

Thanks Governor Arnie!

[Tamzee]

Arnold-starts-hacking-away-at-government-bloat Ping :-)

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