Governor Is On Right Track In Seeking A Spending Cap (George "Slumberin'" Skelton Alert)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 04/04/05 | George Skelton

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Political players at the Capitol, however, are split into three camps: conservatives who complain that Schwarzenegger's approach is too wimpy, liberals who cry it's too harsh and the governor and his business allies who are seeking a middle ground.

"Conservative Republicans don't like it and Democrats don't like it. There must be something right about it," says Bill Hauck, a principal coauthor of the plan. He's president of the California Business Roundtable and a longtime government wonk who has worked both sides of the partisan fence.

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Damn right. We don't think a spending cap authored by RINOs goes far enough to fix what's ailing California. The political reality is we'll take what we can get and fight another day for more. If Democrats don't like it, I'll take a wimpy spending cap and have us toughen it up down the road. As the Governator's been fond of saying repeatedly - "We don't have a revenue problem; we have a spending problem." Time to get our fiscal house under control again.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Supernatural]

Arnold tried to cut back some programs shortly after he became governor and the dems had a fit. This will never fly.

[henderson field]

"We don't have a revenue problem - we have a spending problem" bears repeating.