Posted on 08/20/2003 7:29:37 AM PDT by kellynla
Senator Tom McClintock today issued the following response to Cruz Bustamante's "tough on California" statement.
"I was hoping for more of a message of hope and optimism from our Lt. Governor. What California received was more of the failed Gray Davis type leadership from the second most powerful person in the state. When the Lt. Governor says we have to 'sacrifice' he is not kidding. Unfortunately, it is the hard-working, taxpaying families of California that will suffer and not his special interest and public employee union friends.
"At a time when state government is taking a higher percentage of California's personal income than at any time in our history, Mr. Bustamante proposes a TEN BILLION dollar tax increase. This will mean that working families and small businesses will have to find another $1,150 somewhere in their budgets to continue the Sacramento spending spree.
"Much like Governor Davis, who called his illegal tripling of the car tax a 'cut' in state spending, Mr. Bustamante includes the transfer of some $2 BILLION of mandated socialized medicine costs to small businesses as a 'savings' for the state.
"As for my three simple questions that I asked of Cruz this week, it is obvious that he will not join with me in abolishing the car tax, since he is only willing to return about half of what Gray Davis illegally took from motorists. There was nothing tough on energy—as he said nothing about the $42 billion of overpriced power contracts.
"Finally, there was certainly nothing tough on the applicant attorneys and special interests since he did not mention the third major crisis of the Davis administration. My plan to replace California’s broken Workers’ Comp system with the successful Arizona model would save state and local governments at least $2.5 billion annually.
"It’s time Cruz Bustamante explains why we should vote no on the recall but support him for governor. He can’t have it both ways. If he thinks Davis' dismal record is worth defending, he should make that case. If he really wants to replace him, how would he do things differently?"
He's more than a jerk. He's a true racist, and a bull sh*t specialist, and he's good at it.
He came off with that "tough love" on the front of his podium, as if the people of California did something wrong and must be punished now, as another poster stated. Actually the people of California did do something wrong, the allowed these traitors, socialist, liberals, and racist go get a hold of power.
As an observer, I am a little surprised this hasn't reached the point of civil disobedience or worse. As the people that have been in power, Davis, Bustamante, and the rest of the anti-American socialist have hurt a lot of people.
Full circle indeed! If you cut those 4 things (which aren't likely going to give static numbers, so dollars would doubtlessly be difficult to predict exactly, although the effect on the economy would not.) then you are unquestionably going to be getting the 9.5%. I would put forth to you that in the duplicate state vs Fed agency that this is larger than 10% in itself alone, not to mention the Workers Comp boondoggle.
You are correct, he doesn't give a % of how much of the budget these will save, but if you are serious in questioning this aspect of his plan, I would call that kind of lame considering how much $ those 4 will be. I mean, cutting Worker's Comp ALONE will increase hiring in the Golden State and thereby immensely increase tax "revenue" into the capital. Revenue right now is still increasing, it will explode after that and eat up the debt on its own, without cutting your Police-Fire-Roads-Schools canard.
Stop thinking like a Democrate, a healthy growing economy is dynamicly scaled, not staticly. Thank God Tom McClintock understands this.
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I dunno. There are a lot of angry people, me being one of them. I've faxxed, written and called my elected "representatives" over and over. Has it done any good? Usually no. If I get a reply, it's usually patronizing, condescending, and the position taken by the critter is usually the polar opposite of mine. How many have the same experience as mine? Probably quite a few. But it seems that there are more who do nothing, and more yet who benefit from the rule of the folks like Davis, Bustamante, and the leftists in the legislature - such as the unions, identity groups, and any others who receive largess from the treasury. Those who would practice civil disobedience in large enough numbers to make a difference are pretty busy with jobs, home, and families to get out do be civilly disobedient.
And, I'm aware of Cruz's racism. I've posted links to such stories on smaller discussions boards (like calguns.net) so that people who frequent those boards and don't spend time on places like Freerepublic are aware of those sources.
*sigh* But he didn't say these things, the Democratic Legislatures are the ones bringing out this tired, dare I say it, canard. Wake up.
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Senator McClintock's BRAC Legislation is Approved by the California Senate |
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Date: July 27, 2003
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Measure sets up a Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure Commission to identify, downsize or eliminate obsolete state bureaucracie.
(Sacramento) – Senate Bill 9 by State Senator Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks) was approved today by the California State Senate by a vote of 36 to 0. The bill sets up a Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) to identify, downsize or eliminate obsolete state government bureaucracies. The legislation is modeled after the federal military base realignment and closure commission which successfully closed 90 obsolete military bases, saving $20 billion per year. Senator McClintock’s legislation, SB 9, applies the same mechanism to a similar problem: how to identify, downsize or eliminate obsolete bureaucracies in state government. The difficulty in conducting such a review – and acting upon it – is that every program has a highly motivated constituency that jealously and expertly guards its budget. Faced with the long overdue need to close obsolete military bases, the federal government confronted the same paralysis caused by interest group pressure. Ultimately, Congress broke the gridlock when it took the task of reviewing bases out of the political arena and gave it to an independent panel of management experts that returned a comprehensive recommendation for a single up-or-down vote. SB 9 will empanel an independent commission of management experts to examine state bureaucracies to determine which ones perform obsolete or duplicate services. The plan will then be presented to the Legislature for a single yes or no vote. “I think we all agree that this government could operate a lot more efficiently,” said Senator McClintock. The bill next moves to the California State Assembly. |
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Now I'm starting to question your, how shall I say, intellectual honesty about this. You know Tom doesn't mention cutting the 4 things you listed in your Demo canard, and that's patently obvious. You're desperate to discredit him at this point, color me suspicious of your intentions...
FYI, I was posting that op-ed from the beginning of the year on FR when you were still bashing the viability of the recall.
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