Did you catch the guy from the Hoover Institute on O'Reilly last night? He was saying that spending will automatically increase by 10 BILLION $$ next year if nothing is done. 50 - 60 million is well worth the investment to stop 10 BILLION. Also, did anyone see O'Reily's face when the guy from Hoover said that California spends 50 BILLION $$ a year on education? And we are dead last in the state rankings!! I will definetly download a petition and get all my friends to sign it, just like a did to get rid of Gray Davis.
I don't agree with everything Arnold has done, but I will support redistricting, pension and education reform. BTW, I read that Arnold was giving up on pushing his reform (ie regional gov't intiative) so things are looking up.
He needs to focus on a few key reforms and stop this trying to do it all at once, as it is, a fall ballot will be so overstuffed with so many other issues for consideration and will likely mean a lot of folks will not even bother to vote.
Some folks think, because I take extreme positions and don't gve him carte blanche, that I want to see failure as the Gub's Legacy, at the rate he is trying to be all things to all people, he's doing a pretty good job of insuring it all by his lone self.
Yes, California is in a death spiral with mandates and more on the way if we aren't careful. Giving the dems a pass last year did not help slow it down a bit.
He does have emergency powers, but invoking them would be costly in approval ratings, and ya know that is one ting the Gub values more than anything.
Pity, that.