Posted on 08/31/2006 5:38:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Legislators on Thursday sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a universal health care bill he is likely to veto and a measures increasing the minimum wage and regulating greenhouse gases he is likely to sign.
Lawmakers face a midnight deadline to deal with nearly 200 bills before the scheduled end of the two-year legislative session. Before adjournment, they are expected to send the Republican governor bills to allow phone companies into the cable television market and ban hand-held cell phone use while driving. Also on the table are measures to ease prison overcrowding.
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We need to focus on the rootcause of all these horrible bills: the leftist Dem controlled CA Legislature.
They are churning out bills at a rate of 1000 per year, Arnold has been vetoieng about a thirds, but the leftist Dems are just so prolific one just can't keep up with their insanity.
Relevant article:
New laws suffocate California
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686976/posts
Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown and George Deukmejian added roughly 1,500 new laws yearly; Pete Wilson and Gray Davis about 1,000 annually.
Scary.
But in 2004, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made news. He vetoed 311 bills. His vetoes caused legislators momentary pause. They sent him “only” 961 laws in 2005. Arnold let 729 become law — a “record low” in our times.
Related articles and threads on the univeral healthcare bill:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=sb840
Every new law is a reduction in someone's freedom.
It is time for a new round of propositions for the people to check the state gov't on this nonsense.
We could start by passing an initiative dissolving the full time Legislature, including their exorbitant salaries.
The initiative should also limit to no more than 30 days in sesssion and no more than $500/day compensation,
AND NO MORE than 10 bills per year.
Doing everything possible to turn the state into a Banana Republic. If someone barred the doors of the assembly, and none of these laws were passed, would life on earth come to a halt? Would anyone notice?
If someone paid state legislators 5 times their state salary to not come to work, to spend their term of office in Cancun, would the state be any worse off? Or would people, somehow, manage to muddle through without them?
I think I'll run for office. My campaign promise is that, if elected, I won't show up for work for two years. I promise.
And I promise that if the others would do the same, the state would be a better place.
Go east, young man! (Sound business advice)
What about the leftist controlled governor's office?
Arnold has been vetoing about a thirds,
Last time we had a Republican Governor he was a RINO squish SOB and he vetoed 80% of the bad bills.
but the leftist Dems are just so prolific one just can't keep up with their insanity.
Oh that's ridiculous. Arnold could veto every single damn bill sent to him if he wanted to. What's with this inane "He can't keep up?" A veto takes a signature -- that's all.
"Last time we had a Republican Governor he was a RINO squish SOB and he vetoed 80% of the bad bills."
There you go, spreading incorrect information again.
See my post 2 with link to article that refutes your ludicrous claim.
Why do you have to resort to distortion of the truth?
I know, because the truth shows Arnold in a favorable light.
"Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown and George Deukmejian added roughly 1,500 new laws yearly; Pete Wilson and Gray Davis about 1,000 annually.
Scary.
But in 2004, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made news. He vetoed 311 bills. His vetoes caused legislators momentary pause. They sent him “only” 961 laws in 2005. Arnold let 729 become law — a “record low” in our times. "
(see post 2 for link)
YES! Term limits haven't worked....somehow these maniacs have to be reined in.
The coming few days are not going to be glorious for either Schwarzenegger or his supporters on FreeRepublic.
Once the Austrian is reelected, and he can do it without conservative support, Betsey bar the door. Schwarzenegger can't, however, gain a second term without modest Republican support, hence the FO account on FR. Schwarzenegger's Republican credentials are swiftly evaporating, hence the mad and endless clamor from the FO account on this forum.
For my part, I expect politicians to lie and the Austrian hasn't proved an exception. I expect his supporters to lie and they haven't run afoul of the laws of political persuasion either.
I reason that most on FreeRepublic are political junkies and understand the rules. I expect few Freepers or lurkers place much credence in the tall yarns spun by the FO account during this election cycle.
I guess that's why they call it the silly season.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
No offense, but signing an insane bill like this "greenhouse" bill is so looney that it negates a lot of good works. I see absolutely no rational reason to sign this bill. If the poeple and the legislature want it so badly they can override a veto.
Does the CA constitution provide for anything like a "pocket veto"?
WTF is a "single-payer" health care plan? I hear liberals rattle it off all the time like it's the answer to all our problems, but I've never really heard the details.
I mean, I'm the "single payer" on my company's insurance plan because it comes out of my paycheck. Can anyone tell me what the difference would be?
Does drilling for oil off the coast of Cally effect global warming? Not if we sell the black gold to the Chicoms - eh?
Excellent idea! A part-time legislature like Texas would not have time to come up with these insane laws.
PS: For an economic rationale for limiting government read, "Democracy, the God that Failed" by Professor Hoppe. Essentially he argues that unfettered competition in the production of "Goods" is needed in a nation but the open competition in the production of "Bads" like more laws and politicians (that confiscate more and more via taxes( should be limited.
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