[Carry_Okie]

Remember also that the power crisis that is the basis of that $43 BILLION in power bonds was manufactured out of primarily environmental considerations. You might want to read the whole article and Post 136 of this thread. Environmental issues aren't a small-time backwater irritant, they comprise corruption on a grand scale with enormous economic consequences.

[Redwood71]

I don't disagree. But without an income base that historically is supplied by business, as the agricultural part of the state also uses these same businesses, the cash flow needed to handle the previously more important items by the state, some they shouldn't have even started, go tango uniform. The luxuries of running a state with such a huge economy can be destructive if the state overdraws it's capacity. The tripling of the car taxes was an example of the panic efforts of the state government, liberal by nature, to try to smother their short sightedness.

The previous administration through passed bills and having others in the works, have chased the cash cow across the borders. My old man used to say "Don't $hit where you eat." And in finding out that, at least, 1/4 of the unions in the state, usually strong liberal allies, voted for recall, I would say they have slapped business on the nose with the rolled up paper a little too much.

Environment has its place. But, there's no need to worry about it in a desert. Trying to recover the economy is the first and formost topic right now. And that is an area Arnie has a little knowledge in. And definately more than Reagan did. So, that's a plus.

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