[calcowgirl]

Dan Walters in SacBee.com was quite critical of CPR over the weekend

Yep. Weintraub was also critical; he did a piece on the Education recommendations. Other papers had many less than enthusiastic comments.

Walters:   Schwarzenegger's reforms fall far short

Weintraub:   Education in state requires makeover - not manicure

Schrag   Schwarzenegger's reform plan gets too much respect

Press-Enterprise: Fix-it report not a fix-all

For his top-to-bottom review of state government, Gov. Schwarzenegger said he wanted not just to think outside the box, but to "blow up the boxes."

I think the California Performance Review analysts took him too literally.

They blew up the boxes, let the pieces fall back to earth, gathered them up and stuck them in different boxes.

Thank heaven one commissioner - state Sen. Jim Brulte, R-Rancho Cucamonga - asked for assurances that the alleged cost savings aren't just taking the costs out of one box and putting them in another.

[SierraWasp]

Gee! Sounds just like "special effects" from movieland! Lotsa high volume noise and trick photography make for "virtual reality!"

If this keeps up, as I'm sure it will, we'll eventually be hit right between the eyes with some "harsh reality" and it won't be from some earthquake or cyclone, but rather a completely un-natural disaster from yet another Socialist experiment gone dreadfully wrong right here in River City!!!

The current situation and most of these "solutions" are neither "sustainable," nor sound, because no one will face the underlying problem that government is our biggest "growth industry!" And that's sick!!!

[hedgetrimmer]

For his top-to-bottom review of state government, Gov. Schwarzenegger said he wanted not just to think outside the box, but to "blow up the boxes."

The governor wants to think outside the Constitution of the State of California, not outside the box. Dan Walters gave us a very threatening piece of information in his column. To say we need to establish regional governments in California is treason, both to the US and the California Constitution. To let columnists propose that a government of soviets would be better for California that the one we have, is a clear indication that the person we just elected to the governorship isn't fit to be governor, because he obviously lacks the ability to run the state in a constutional fashion, and because his lust to aggregate power is so great he will work toward the destruction of our constitutional government to achieve it.