[DoughtyOne]

Folks, I happen to agree with Schwarzenegger. The problem we now face was caused by a legal immigrant that:

1. Refused to make the cuts he promised
2. Refused to deport Illegal Alien Crimmigrants
3. Refused to take on the teacher’s unions and get the money they waste into the classroom
4. Refused to reign in the out of control state commissions
5. Refused to reign in the environmentalist movements that receive state dollars
6. Refused to stop universities from wasting money, time and other resources trying to brainwash graduate students and brow beat businesses and private owners with tyranical environmentalist hogwash

Yes Arnold, you are right. All of this would have been fixed if only this legal immigrant had two fully functioning brain cells to rub together.

Sadly, you don’t.

[calcowgirl]

7. Championed spending over 1/2 Billion per year on government baby sitting (after school programs)
8. Promoted spending $3 Billion ($6B with interest) on embryonic stem-cell research
9. Sponsored a host of multi-billion dollar, unaffordable, economically non-viable projects such as the hydrogen highway and million solar roofs programs.
10. Is spending billions to introduce greenhouse gas regulation and a cap-and-trade program for the global warming hoax.
11. Caused 7% of the budget to be dedicated to debt service due to irresponsible borrowing.

[muleskinner]

Arnold did make an attempt to get a control of the parts of the state budget, but, if you remember, his 2006 ballot initiatives got schmiced at the ballot box, thanks in large part to the public sector unions - teachers, etc. They played the "World will end if you vote for Arnold's propositions" card. Arnold learned his lesson. The majority of voters in California want to have it both ways, so they're gonna' get it but good.

Around 50% of state taxes goes to schools and the California Teachers Union is the largest in the state. So anytime there is even the whiff of a threat to their kingdom, the airwaves are flooded with dramatic and heartfelt pleas to Joe Voter and how they should storm the state capitol, destroy all Republicans and hang Arnold in a gibbet for the sport of the crows.

[Amerigomag]

a legal immigrant

Are you sure?

The basis for naturalized citizenship in 1983 was an oath swearing sole allegiance to the US. Swearing allegiance to the US cost Schwarzenegger his Austrian citizenship. In 1989, because of his celebrity, strings were pulled in Austria and Austrian citizenship was reinstated, and accepted, thereby breaking the written, 1983, US oath.

I my book he's out and should face a choice. Renounce his Austrian citizenship or face deportation.