"Arnold makes that situation considerably worse"
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You should educate yourself.
THIS Is the real problem:
California's fiscal straightjacket. The initiative process has tied lawmakers' hands
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558353/posts
"A major reason is that more than 70% of state spending, which totals a projected $126.6 billion in the fiscal year starting July 1, is already accounted for before he even begins the budget process. That money is mandated to be spent for specific purposes and nothing else. It's a fiscal straitjacket that makes it impossible for the state to make logical choices and put its tax dollars to work where they may be most needed.
.. Proposition 98 in 1988, fixed education spending permanently at roughly 40% of the General Fund budget. Proposition 98 still is a major factor driving budget-making in the state. In the coming year, state spending on education from kindergarten through community colleges will total about $40 billion, or a little more than 40% of the General Fund.
The governor says nothing will solve the state's budget problem "other than getting rid of those automatic spending formulas." The only way to do that is a sweeping reform of state government, something that is not on the horizon unless people begin demanding it. All California voters can do for now is to keep things from getting worse by rejecting the new ballot-box budgeting initiatives that are certain to come."
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Arnold understands the problem that's why he put Prop. 76 on the ballot.
So, you take my comment about regulation and try to change it to fiscal policy? Fine, FO, let's talk fiscal policy.
NO ONE forced Arnold to raise HIS projected spending levels in the budgets HE PROPOSED to the legislature. ALL of the spending constraints on the budget are as PERCENTAGES. Thus the only way to cut any of them is to cut all of them, across the board. It may look over-simplistic, but it's the only legal means.
That's what McClintock proposed, and why. The only way to make do under such circumstances is to have an intimate knowledge of the operations of every department in State government, something Arnold STILL lacks.
So instead your "fiscal conservative" has increased spending 25% in just three years and increased state debt by nearly 50%. All you offer in his defense is more dishonest spin.
Don't whine. You folks voted for Ahhhhhnold. You are getting what you deserve. As Ed Koch said to former opponents who begged him to run agan after Dinkins' dismal peformance in the Crown Heights riots, "No, you had your chance. Now you have to be punished." Too bad a lot of decent McClintock voters have to suffer too.