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Arnold's answers:

1. How would you propose enhancing revenue and/or what specific cuts would you propose to achieve a balanced budget?

I would reduce the wasteful spending and audit everything. That's my plan.

2. Leaders in the business community are convinced that this state is losing jobs and unable to attract new businesses. If you agree, what are two things you would change to make this a more business-friendly state? If you disagree, what are the misconceptions you would like to correct?

We have to stop the wasteful spendful and be friendly to the businesses.

3. How are you going to ensure that all Californians have adequate health care?

We want to make sure the older folks have their care that they need. That everything has to be provided for the people.

4. Everybody talks about wanting a colorblind society, but what does that actually mean to you? In other words, how do we know when we have succeeded?

Only right wing crazies want to be blind to the coloreds.

5. What should be the top priority for California right now?

To audit everything.

6. If elected governor, will you support the expansion of charter schools in California?

All the schools have to provide the babysitting for the children. The hundreds of millions of dollars of spending in my Prop 49 is a start, but we need lots more.

7. What do you expect to accomplish in the time remaining on Gray Davis' term that he could not?

To bring about change and to turn things around by doing things different.

8. What is the single most important piece of legislation either signed or vetoed during this past legislative session?

People don't want facts and figures, they want me!

9. Do you support reducing the Vehicle License Fee (car tax), and if so, where would you find the revenue to replace the loss to the budget?

When I'm elected President, I'll ask the Democrats to change that.

10. What services will your administration expect local governments to provide and what stable source of revenue will you give them to do it?

We'll get rid of Proposition 13. [frenzied buzzing in his earpiece] I mean protect the 13 and audit everything.

11. Under Govs. Pat Brown and Ronald Reagan, California spent up to 20 percent of its general fund on infrastructure -- such as roads, bridges, colleges, hospitals and water systems. Now we spend closer to 1 percent. Proposition 53 on the ballot raises that figure to 3 percent. What are your positions on Prop. 53, and what will you do to invest more in California's aging infrastructure?

Our children are the most important thing, and that's why I'll audit everything. That's my plan.

12. As our population continues to age, the demand for government services to seniors will increase dramatically during the next decade. What do you intend to do to proactively manage this demand?

Our old people are the most important thing, and that's why I'll audit everything. That's my plan.