Posted on 04/12/2006 9:30:55 PM PDT by SmithL
IN JANUARY, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, wounded from total defeat in his special election two months earlier, announced a bold plan to rebuild California's infrastructure.
His Strategic Growth Plan for California's Future called for $222 billion in federal, state and local spending, including $68 billion in bonds, in anticipation of the state's growth over the next two decades.
"Let us commit to building California so that the (California) dream can remain alive for this generation, for the next generation, and for generations to come," he declared in his State of the State speech.
It's now April, and Schwarzenegger's "Strategic Growth Plan" has disappeared from the political lexicon.
What happened? At a late-night session on March 11, negotiations between Schwarzenegger and both Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature imploded -- which is just as well. Schwarzenegger's plan was hugely expensive, while thin on details.
Since then, the four Republican and Democratic leaders in the two houses of the Legislature have been meeting on their own to craft a more modest infrastructure bond proposal.
Schwarzenegger isn't even involved in the negotiations. That's apparently how all sides want it. Before the plan can be placed on the November ballot, it will need a two-thirds vote in the Legislature -- which means the blessing of Republican lawmakers is crucial.
Instead of a $222 billion plan, what's likely to emerge is a $30 billion-bond plan, which would likely include $6.25 billion for transportation projects, more than $1 billion for rebuilding the state's shaky levee infrastructure and funding for a range of other projects, from school construction to port security.
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Pay as you go..
Repeat after me
Pay as you go..
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Okay. It's not there until the last couple of paragraphs, and it's written in that sneaky, scumbag-liberal weaselspeak - - phrases like "political will" - - but there it is, once you break the code: California must raise taxes.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I see the editors at a liberal toilet tissue like the San Fransicko Chronicle headlining an editorial with "Don't forget, it's our money". Man, those sick scumbags have a lot of gall.
I lived in California off and on for more than twenty years. I was crowded out of most of the places I loved best. In the end I was only married to a little strip of land along the coast that I'll always love, but even that was was starting to overflow during the vacation season, that seemed to get longer and longer.
Then there was the political and economic corruption of the place. The politics of my generation there have become nihilistic and absurd. Despite all the lip service, freedom actually shrinks day by day in California.
Now they want more money to finance more growth, and they want some of that money from everybody else. I for one do not any longer wish to contribute to their socialist empire.
What a crock! But who's surprised? Arnold was always a liberal on social issues - no shock! - but now he's become a lefty on fiscal policy. In fairness to him, he's in California, a state that is bankrupt and approaching insolvency. A state where thousands of small businessmen and entrepreneurs are leaving daily -- and who is replacing them? An illiterate and alien peasantry who will become part of Welfare U.S.A. And Arnold welcomes these invaders! California is a true bell weather state ---- let it be a harbinger and sink!!
approaching insolvency "quote"
You mean irrelavent..
Yes, that's where the quote should be. Have you heard Arnold's amnesty program? Come on in!! Swamp the state! We don't care if you're semi-literate, have a 40% illegitimacy rate, and break our social welfare system, are costing us billions in prison incarceration, and wrecking havoc with the international drug cartel, what the hell do we care? You're potential votes for the Dems and cheap labor for Republican business interests! Besides, we'll call all opponents racists, xenophobes, and bigots! Ha Ha! - the PC line will drive them out of the debate!
Excellent comments - - thanks for your reply.
I sympathize with you. California is a beautiful place, at least the places I visited while in the Marine Corps a long time ago. I spent a month in the Mojave and never wanted to leave, I also spent some time high atop the Sierra Nevadas ("Pickle Meadows" Mountain Warfare Training Center, near Bridgeport) and I never wanted to leave there, either. San Diego is/was awesome.
In the end, it's the liberal goofballs who have made the place unbearable for many fleeing Californians to call home. It's not the place, it's (too many of) the people.
Regards,
LH
---I lived in California off and on for more than twenty years.---
I meant to say 40 years. I moved there in the early 60s with my parents.
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