Schwarzenegger is taking ACTION:
"The governor is prepared to make government efficient for the taxpayer and will be undeterred by forces who would be opposed to that," Schwarzenegger spokesman Rob Stutzman said Friday. "
Report to recommend huge gov't overhaul (Cuts!) -- California
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1182002/posts
A plan to reorganize state government that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will release next week will propose eliminating one third of the state work force, hundreds of state boards and commissions while possibly saving $32 billion over the next five years...
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Report Proposes Sweeping Overhaul of California State Government
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1182149/posts
The report's reform proposals suggest consolidating state operations by combining 11 agencies and 79 departments into 11 major departments. It also calls for technological leaps inside the state bureaucracy, noting Schwarzenegger was unable to e-mail state employees collectively to ask their help in the reorganization study.
No he's not. Boiled down, he's posturing using aspirational words.
(And so are some of his supporters on FR.)
Arnold's MIA on the bottom line, as in line item veto.
He *had* a choice. He chose personal popularity, yet more spending, and (eventually) yet more tax burden on us and our offspring.
Strip away the grandiose pie in the sky future plans, and that is what one is left with.
(And some of his supporters on FR insist there is no choice but to support him for all this increased spending accompanied by hot air.)