Schwarzennegger Calls For Deep Cuts

The Los Angeles Times ^ | 8/21/03 | Michael Finnegan

[goldstategop]

You know, Maria and I, we teach our kids basic principles," he said, referring to his wife, Maria Shriver. "We teach them: Don't spend more money than you have.... I promise you that's what I would teach Sacramento."

"Sacramento has overspent, overtaxed and over-regulated our businesses," he said.

[goldstategop]

This is common sense. Arnold's going to go a long way with talk like this. Which is what the Democrats won't tell you. California has indeed overspent, overtaxed, and overregulated itself to the brink of oblivion. I for one will be soo glad to bid Gray Davis a la hasta vista, baby! come October 7th. I can't wait to send our liberal political class in Sacramento a message it will never forget about the importance of living by the same basic principles we teach to our kids.

[RLK]

Cutting the budget in the abstract is always convenient to say. Now provide a list of what specific spending is to be reduced.

[zarf]

"He doesn't know anything about the budget; that's the problem," Burton said. "He could take probably up to $70 a month from the blind, aged and disabled; eliminate programs for the developmentally disabled and the mentally ill; eliminate aid to local law enforcement; and shut down a couple of state universities and some in the UC system, and that might balance the budget."

This is typical Demonrat bull**it.

[goldstategop]

Its reminds me of the hysterical rhetoric you heard from the Left when the Republicans won Congress. None of which proved in the slightest to subsequently be true.

[Soren]

Why not use the budget from some year prior to the spending boom (1997 maybe?),adjusted for inflation, as a starting point?