Yep. You tried to sell it as spending control and ignored the many, many pitfalls that it contained--deferral of expenses, more debt, more bond authorizations, etc.
Obviously with all your rhethoric you are the one who didn't want to see the spending controlled.
What "rhetoric" is that, exactly? Arnold has proposed spending and borrowing amounts that dems could have only dreamed about before the neoliberal won office under the (R) label. I opposed Prop 57/58 borrowing, a scam to supplement the socialistic spending levels. Others however, ignored facts and tried to sell it as "a debt restructuring" and "not new debt," a lie that has been exposed over and over again. Such efforts at selling the socialist spending agenda are enabling and promoting liberalism, something I strenuously oppose.
This years budget proposal is no different and, as supported in Post #14 above, Prop 76 would not have reduced the spending levels one iota. In fact, he would have been able to spend even more by increasing the debt instead of paying off prior loans made to the general fund.
Have you looked at the budget numbers or read the budget, FO? This is not fiscally conservative.
Expenditures Expend's per Capita
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Population Gen Fund Total Gen Fund Total
Year (000's) Employees (Mlns) (Mlns)
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2003-04 35,990 316,860 $78,345 $104,223 $2176.85 $2895.89
2004-05 36,506 313,684 79,804 107,591 2186.05 2947.21
2005-06 37,005 330,141 90,294 127,483 2440.05 3445.02
2006-07 37,514 335,473 97,902 125,603 2609.75 3348.16
Source: Schedule 6, pdf Page 297, Governor's Budget Proposal
Furthermore, despite the governor having sold the electorate Prop 58, the "Balanced Budget Act", promising to never spend more than the state takes in, Arnold is proposing deficit spending as far as the eye can see, something else that Prop 76 would have done nothing about. This is not mandated spending by the legislature, nor it is the result of automatic formulas; this plan is that designed by this governor(R). For someone who sold himself as a "fiscal conservative", he is a disgrace.
