Most Californians have no clue this is the case. No clue. I tell my fellow Californians we don’t have a revenue problem but a spending problem, I tell them that the budget has doubled in just 8 or 9 years, and they look at me glassy eyed. It just doesn’t sink in. They have no clue. The liberals still want to raise taxes even higher. They have absolutely no clue.
People in California have absolutely no clue how fast the spending has risen in this state.
I disagree that Arnold is to blame. He is just an easy target, just like a quarterback on a bad football team. California’s spending has been out of control for over 30 years, and in that time we have had no less than 3 Republican governors to only one Democrat.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 5 years
Gray Davis, 4 years
Pete Wilson, 8 years
George Deukmejian, 8 years
21 years of Republican governors to only 4 years of Democrat governors. The governors are NOT the problem with this state.
The only thing all 4 administrations had in common is a stream of tax-and-spend-to-the-eyeballs liberal Democrat Legislatures. People continue to blame the Governors when it is the legislators who are spending this state into default. Not that I consider Arnold a TRUE Republican as say, Pete Wilson was. Arnold is a RINO extraordinaire, but the fact remains, it is the communist legislature that is spending this state into oblivion.