Posted on 01/07/2005 1:36:51 PM PST by Stoat
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Bump for reference.
Like most of these articles it also fails to mention the repetitive pattern that Schwarzenegger presents. Long on ideas, short on specifics and no accomplishments within the time frame at hand.
We heard this same rhetoric late in the fall of 2003, again in the spring of 2004 and now a third time in early 2005. Talk is cheap and the only changes that Schwarzenegger has actually accomplish has been to raise state spending 6% to the highest level in the state's history, increase per-capita taxation to the highest level in California's history, increase state indebtedness to the highest level in California's history and, of course, his propensity to keep making lofty speeches with no or little results.
You bet ya. Schwarzenegger is Austria's most well known, living citizen. Just wish he would move back.
Arnie's California Performance Review is underwhelming at best, and dangerous at worst. "Long on ideas, short on specifics and no accomplishments" pretty well sums it up.
The legislature is not incentivized to deliver supporting legislation and the initiative process (as mandated by the state constitution) limits initiatives to one issue. It would take a MANY initiatives to implement the few good ideas found in the agenda.
http://www.report.cpr.ca.gov/cprrpt/preschg/index.htm
The CPR is dangerous to constitutional government. It eliminates elected offices, forcing citizens to go to unelected bureaucrats for purposes that should be delegated to elected officials. It sets up super agencies that vest more power in the governor's office because the heads of the super agencies are appointed by the governor and not elected by the people. It changes county boundaries unconstitutionally by setting up regional government offices. Citizens lose representation in regional governments because most regional councils are appointed and do not have to honor open meeting laws like the Brown Act.
The CPR is a socialist dream consolidating power in one person (the governor) and wrests power from citizens who were formerly guaranteed the right to elected representation and a constitutional government.
You won't find me disagreeing with that assessment. To do this constitutionally would take 200 propositions. There are a few gold nuggets in the pile of U235. Common information systems is one that I can get behind. I would note that the implementation of this is NOT free. The change from county to regional authority (e.g. for schools) is just plain awful. Look at what the Coastal Commission has done for us.
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