Posted on 05/20/2009 10:30:09 AM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- Saying California voters delivered a message to "go all out" in cutting government spending, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today promised to make severe state budget reductions in education, health care and law enforcement.
"We tried to not make those kind of cuts, but now we have to," the Republican governor told reporters in Washington. "There's no other choice. I think the message was clear from the people: Go all out and make those cuts and live within your means."
Schwarzenegger thanked Californians for voting in Tuesday's special election. They rejected ballot measures endorsed by the governor that would have reduced the cuts to $15 billion. And the governor said the message was "very loud and clear."
"And you know something? I appreciate that," Schwarzenegger said. "When you hear that from the people, then it gives us a chance to go and adjust and say, `OK, we went the wrong direction. Now let's go in the right direction. Let's go do what the people want.' "
Schwarzenegger made his remarks this morning before flying back to Sacramento, where he planned to meet with legislative leaders to plot strategy on how to proceed in balancing the state's budget.
After analyzing the election results, the governor said that "an overwhelming majority of people told Sacramento go and do your work yourself; don't come to us with your problems."
"The majority of people that came up to me didn't complain so much about certain issues," Schwarzenegger said. "They just said, 'Why are you bothering me again? I mean, I'm busy. You take care of it. You guys are sent to Sacramento to take care of those problems. Don't come to us. I'm angry. I'm upset. And sure don't come to us for more money. ....
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
It’s time we change the rules on that one.
Tell everyone you know that if [Politician A] is so stupid/insane/evil that the only place he/she can think to cut is [critical service] he/she should never, ever, ever be in office again.
Any office.
“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today promised to make severe state budget reductions in education, health care and law enforcement.
He forgot libraries.
Protected are state commissions, liberal green projects, special studies in progress, the cost of illegal immigrants...
He’ll show us who’s boss!”
Our next job is to clean house in Sacramento.... and show them who’s boss!!
There’s a move afoot to recall Arnold - what we need even more is the recall of the whole legislature - that’s where all the puss is!
With oil at $60/bbl. again, it surely would be nice if CA had oil revenue coming in as TX and LA do from their tidelands. But noooooo...the enviro-nazis own the CA legislature. Let’s see the Governator change that.
I agree Aquila48. I started proposing an initiative to do just that before the end of last year.
It dawned on me at one point that this might be impossible, because an appellate court might rule it illegal for voters outside districts, to make decisions concerning the representatives serving districts they didn’t live in.
If I vote to remove all reps, can that stand up to judicial review? I’m not sure. I would tend to doubt it.
We’d probably have to have district wide recalls, and that would probably be the weak point to such a plan.
Yup. Lay off anyone who can catch an illegal or identify fraud. That’s the ticket!
Ahnald and all his RINO and Democrat friends have been terminated. They just don’t realize it yet.
BTW, I plan to help out on the gubernatorial recall any way I can.
Well quit talking about it, Arnie, and DO IT.
This is what Schwarz needed. He can now make the painful cuts and use the reason “voters made me do it”
“We’d probably have to have district wide recalls, and that would probably be the weak point to such a plan.”
I’m pretty sure that’s correct.
Unfortunately as bad as Arnold has been, removing just him won’t solve much unless a real conservative gets in - but California hasn’t gotten painful enough yet to wake the sheeple from their slumber and elect a McClintock.
I suppose there would be some benefit to getting another liberal dem governor and let them run the whole show. They’ll finish destroying the state and then there may be enough sane people that haven’t left the state to get the leeches out of our lives.
Long shot.
I think the benefit of ousting Schwarzenegger would be to prevent him from playing it off that he was a good governor after he leaves office.
He will want to be a kingmaker in the future. I want his political credibility absolutely crushed.
I want Pete Wilson on record as being the asshole who asked Schwarzenegger to run. Perhaps it will stop him from screwing us again too.
In further news, pigs fly.
Schwarzenegger does have the b@lls to do meaningful budget cutting. The Governator is really a Cali Pansy.
He took his knee pads to DC this week to get the Obama bailout for Kalifornia.
Schwarzenegger doesn't have the b@lls to do meaningful budget cutting.
Can't. Texas tried this back in the 70s. Unconstitutional.
If you look at the revised budget with the cuts for the failure of 1A, etcetera, you’ll see that many of them impact resident aliens, but none impact illegal aliens. Presumably this is due to a combination of the Prop. 87 rulings and Federal funding and mandates.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
- Benjamin Franklin
Of course not. When you say, "cut services to illegals" you're really saying, "cut jobs that service illegals" and that's not going to happen. What will happen it this:
1) Arnie makes his move against some state agency or SIG (Special Interest Group);
2) SIG immediately files suit against (1) above;
3) Friendly courts rule in favor of SIG, usually on the pretext that Arnie's actions were "unconstitutional".
California needs to realize that they've become France--a wine-growing state with a small group of cheese-eating, wine-sniffing elites with a bloated, entrenched government worker class and a general populace infected with impoverished aliens unwilling to assimilate.
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