Posted on 09/26/2005 1:24:26 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Elementary schools start with the fundamentals, the building blocks, the three R's: reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic. The California Comeback starts with its fundamentals, its building blocks, too. They are a different three R's: recovery, reform, rebuild.
When I took office 22 months ago, I had no illusions about how difficult the job would be, no illusions about what it would take to turn around a state $22 billion in debt. But in that time, we have accomplished the first R - recovery. We saved the state from bankruptcy, increasing state revenues $6 billion without raising taxes. We rolled back the unfair car tax increase, reduced workers' compensation insurance premiums 30 percent, created a positive business environment and brought huge numbers of jobs back to the state - more than 400,000.
You put your full faith and trust in me when you sent me to Sacramento to fix a broken political system. I was - and remain - determined to reach your goal. I knew there would be challenges, but I believed I could get Democrats and Republicans to work together. Initially, we did. We got a lot done, and we did it quickly.
I am proud of the economic recovery, just as I am proud of our other accomplishments: supporting stem cell research, victims' rights, the three-strikes law and environmental initiatives such as the hydrogen highway. I'm proud I set aside more land for public parks than any governor in California's history.
I also know that while meeting those challenges, I made some mistakes and learned many vital lessons along the way that make me a better governor.
I've learned that it is a good idea as governor to listen more and talk less, especially lines best left for "Saturday Night Live." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
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Arnold really loves his "Kollyforniya". He has to, so that he may continue to do the job in the face of the sheer nastiness that is thrown at him.
Maybe California Dem'crats didn't invent political invective, but they sure have raised it to an art form.
How was he gonna pull that one off, pray tell?
Well, first you'd need some loaded firearms.......
Maybe even a BMG50 or two,, which he vetoed legislation regarding same , as I 'recall'. ;-)
Maybe even a BMG50 or two,, which he vetoed signed legislation regarding banning same , as I 'recall'. ;-)
We saved the state from bankruptcy ...(Huh? delayed it is more likely),
increasing state revenues $6 billion without raising taxes ... (sell that to folks paying higher local taxes and tuition).
We rolled back the unfair car tax increase ... (anyone winning the Recall would have done the same or gotten recalled as well),
reduced workers' compensation insurance premiums 30 percent ... (after it increased 300-400% the last few years),
created a positive business environment and brought huge numbers of jobs back to the state - more than 400,000 ... (most filled by illegals).
Not to mention the Sierra Nevada Conservancy. The new "fiscal conservatism" at work.
I wish him well but if prop 75 doesn't pass his goose is cooked as well as ours...
Ahnold cannot finish what he started. It's not in the nature of the job.
By actually sicking it to the conservatives, of course. You knew that!!!
"We can start that work this November with a Yes vote on Propositions 74, 76 and 77."
maybe one of his aides slipped him an old script. ;-)
I honestly think he thinks this is what the Sierra-Nevada CONservancy is going to be... a gigiantic PARK!!! (that is if he ever thinks about anything other than himself)
Maybe FareOpinion can explain that.
Given that Arnold didn't come out for Prop. 75 until AFTER it had qualified and then only at the convention, his tepid support for the most important measure on the ballot does beg for an explanation.
Why do you call FairOpinion "FareOpinion?"
'Have noticed that a few times.
I know you'd like to respond but don't
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