The only reason we have the debt for general fund spending is because Arnold himself pushed Proposition 58, $15 billion in bonds (that were otherwise unconstitutional). He has $3 billion in bonds left, which he can choose not to spend. All he needs to do is use his veto pen, something he apparently doesn't have the backbone to do or fears it will effect his popularity.
Just keep your promise, Arnold: Cut, Cut, Cut. You don't need any new propositions to do that.
I agree with you!
It seems he does:
The measures Schwarzenegger backed that have qualified for the ballot would give the governor power to unilaterally cut spending in times of a budget shortfall,
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And we have a special just for orange county:
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O.C.-ONLY INITIATIVE
Public Safety: Reallocates up to 10 percent of a sales tax from 1994’s Proposition 172 or about $30 million a year to Orange County firefighters, most of which now goes to the sheriff and district attorney.
• WHO’S AFFECTED: Orange County sheriffs and prosecutors lose funding that the local initiative would pay to firefighters.
• GETTING INVOLVED: Proponents: Orange County Professional Firefighters Association, www.ocpfa3631.org. Opponents: Orange Sheriff’s deputies www.aocds.org.
The Paycheck Protection initiative will make it impossible for organized labor to automatically fund their extortion of the state gov't. If this doesn't pass, with the labor agreements under consideration, the STATE will walk right into the pension fiasco for which the rapidly facing bankruptcy San Diego is a model.
Reapportionment gives us a fighting chance to bring the state back under the People's control rather than the inept politicians carving out nice little safe districts for one another in backroom deals. No CA legislative or Congressional office changed parties despite the air of reform among the people. It's a protection racket that needs to be broken.
Keeping school teachers from getting tenure too easily will help us take the schools back from the NEA and their big labor allies.
We must be CAREFUL since a few of the items coming on the Nov ballot are Dem-pushed.
One veto is nothing if the state could return to a Dem governor next year and explode spending, raise taxes across the board, suffocate the returning revenues, the improve business climate and other things which have helped California turn around.
Grow up! Arnold's trying to look at the SYSTEMIC ILLS, not fight brush wars.