Posted on 07/15/2004 9:38:52 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was back on the road again Wednesday, posing with law enforcement officials and demanding that legislators pass his plan to protect local governments from the depredations of the state. That is, protect local governments once he finishes taking $2.6 billion from their coffers over the next two years.
Given his own designs on city and county revenues, Schwarzenegger's hands are hardly clean on this issue. So perhaps he should ease the inflammatory rhetoric and get back to doing what he promised when he was elected: solving some of California's seemingly intractable problems.
One of the biggest among them is the mess in state and local finance, a spaghetti pot of contradictory and competing revenue streams, lines of authority and obsolete distribution formulas.
Past governors have acknowledged the dysfunction but shied away from attacking the problem because so many interest groups have a stake in the outcome that blowing through them all would be political heavy lifting at its worst.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Go Dan Go! One of the best, perhaps THE best, in this realm.
Still hoping Arnold does better. But ... Still disappointed for now, and planning to vote his *** out if he doesn't MORE than make up for his shortcomings thus far, by next budget ...
Especially the last line in the article!!!
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Dan is no friend to conservatives. I have read his stuff for years. He is well connected and thoughtful on some issues. On others her parrots the party line like a good little RAT.
Yes he's right, of course, but then again, Arnie wasn't really elected to do that. Now was he.
Wait a minute. How long have the CA CRATS had to destroy CA. Do you really expect total reform and clean up this jackass State. I live here. Years of this overspend and business restrictions will take years of slow steady work to reform. Remember, CRATS still live in the mouse hole we call Sacramento.
Hail Arnold. Keep at it.
Incorrect. The biggest problem that Governor Ah-nold faces is how to save the State of California from all of those looney Californians!
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