Allowing the governor to make mid-year cuts could do wonders. Right now he's boxed in by a lot of mandates, lack of support from the GOP (and too many Freepers here) and unending assault by the unions.
>>Borrowing is better than taxation if it means spending control.
DUH! Borrowing ENABLES spending!
I concur. The legislature holds all the power in the state, and they wrote off the Gov. when his poll numbers started going south.
What I CAN see is that Dem. leadership in Sacto is very angry and very afraid of the Governator. You can feel it in their offices. He's a nightmare that they are hoping will go away. They hate the fact that the moderate state voters are taking power back.
>>Allowing the governor to make mid-year cuts could do wonders. Right now he's boxed in by a lot of mandates...
The deficit spending is NOT a result of mid-year expenditures. For two years in a row now, Arnold has passed a budget that is structurally out of balance (i.e. spends more than revenues). What good is the power to impose mid-year spending cuts if he won't even use the powers he has now to cut at the beginning of the budget year? Not only has he not cut, those budgets were the result of HIS proposed spending levels.
This whole measure is a ruse to get the voters to approve more borrowing, IMO. If he really wanted a spending cap, he would have backed the measure proposed by John Campbell, et. al.
>>I haven't read the prop yet...
Maybe you should before trying to defend it.
Frankly newsjunkey I scratching my head trying to figure out why you're posting on this thread. This is, after all, a conservative forum.
Even teenagers soon figure out that extorting money from parents under false pretenses and borrowing money from friends with a promise the parents will pay the money back is not a viable alternative. Living within your means is pretty basic stuff. The only other classes of folks that would agree with your statement are liberals and the chronically dependent underbelly that the liberal philospohy conceived under FDR.
Right Schwarzenegger is boxed in by .... lack of support from .... too many Freepers here
And you would expect a group of conservatives to support a liberal, especially a liberal deceitfully pretending to be a conservative because?
My suggestion would be, if you support Schwarzenegger is to:
1) Stop bashing conservatives. They didn't support or vote for Schwarzenegger. It's not their fault a liberal was elected nor is it their responsibility to support a liberal.
2) Have a little talk with your Austrian friend and remind him that without the support of conservatives (which obviously represent up to 13% of the electorate based on the recall results), which he can only achieve by implementing conservative values, he's got a long row to hoe in the next gubernatorial election.
Oh! And Tom McClintock is wrong to support this dog, too! It's just that A.S. has cornered all conservatives and Republicans by sucking all the oxygen and commonsense out of the total Recall, AFTERALL!!! (including the CAGOP!)