Not only a a star-struck person but a disingenuous a star-struck person to boot.
You participated yesterday in the discussion of the yet unveiled proposal to redirect state spending to the private sector. You know the shift will accomplish some savings but not enough to offset the continued liberal binge to be approved by Schwarzenegger today.
One ballyhooed step forward to accomplish two quiet steps backward and Schwarzenegger's donor's get a pot of gold from the state to boot. A win-win deal, for liberals and big donors equally.
And to think that your blind party loyalty helped accomplish all this. Congratulations. Good for you and screw the rest of us.
Did you get a car tax refund like the rest of us, or were you being screwed while Schwarzenegger rewarded the rest of us? Curious minds would like to know?
You seem to think that a Governor takes office and two weeks later he completely reorganizes state government to your satisfaction, job completed. Well, sorry fella, that's not the way it works.
Schwarzenegger arranded stop gap funding to keep the state going while a plan was developed and put in place. Short term debt was coming due, and without an immediate tax increase, the state would have defaulted on debt and it's bond rating would have dropped costing the state untold millions of dollars. Of course that was only the outcome without the bond measure.
I know you folks don't like the bond measure that was passed, but I'm not convinced alternatives could have reasonably been instituted in the time allotted.
To make big change in government, you have to devise a good plan and sell that plan. Coming in and using a machete to dismember state government would have pleased you and I, but I'm not convinced we'd have kept many swing voters on board. Explaining the plan, implementing it over time with public support seems like the only rational way to do this, IMO.
The budget committee is months overdue. I believe Schwarzenegger said it would be done in the spring. Okay, that's not good, but if the plan does slice and dice state government, isn't that a good thing? I have been desiring to see state commissions abolished for twenty years. Now 118 of them have their necks on the chopping block for real. I can't tell you how great it is to know that.
What I see developing is a groundswell on the forum, which sees Schwarzenegger making cuts the democrats would never have made, but folks still carping because he didn't do other things they wanted.
If people want to carp, I'm fine with it, as long as they acknowledge the good things that are done as well.