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Shocker – Arnold Schwarzenegger Proposes California Budget Cuts
The California State Parks proposed for closure by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
How many different times does Flap have to spell it out that Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a disastrous Governor for California – on the order of Gray Davis.
Now, Arnold who has failed to balance the budget in every fiscal year he has been California governor has proposed new draconian cuts.
California State Senator Tom McClintock has been screaming at the Governator but Arnold has not listened.
So, Arnold has two choices:
1. Become unpopular and make the cuts
2. Become unpopular and raise taxes
The day of reckoning which was at hand when Arnold was first elected (when Democrat Governor Gray Davis was recalled) and could have been prevented by prudent fiscal management is here.
It is a bitch being Governor, isn’t it Arnold?
Someday you might have to govern.
Update:
Sacramento Bee blogger Dan Weintraub says the Governor is NOT real and that Democrats Perata and Nunez were soft on the Governator today – hinting that they have made a deal on the budget already.
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Schwarzenegger’s Health Care Plan Bad for California
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks to members of the media at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles November 15, 2007. California’s Assembly on December 17, 2007 approved Schwarzenegger’s plan for universal health insurance, as overhauling health care grows as a prominent issue in the 2008 presidential election.
Hell, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been unable to balance ANY of his budgets while in office. Tax and spend are the easy outs for the actor turned politico.
And, now he wants to move California to government run health care?
Maybe the California State Senate will have better sense and recall the last time the state screwed around with a major policy issue – remember electricity deregulation and Enron?
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Fiscal Emergency for California
First Lady Maria Shriver and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger arrive at the California Museum of History, Women and the Arts for a ceremony honoring inductees into the 2007 California Hall of Fame in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007.
Arnold’s post-partisan result – A $14 Billion deficit and a fiscal emergency.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he will declare a “fiscal emergency” in January to give him and the Legislature more power to deal with the state’s growing deficit.
Schwarzenegger made the announcement Friday after meeting with lawmakers and interest groups this week to tell them California’s budget deficit is worse — far worse — than economists predicted just a few weeks ago.
The shortfall is not $10 billion, but more than $14 billion — a 40 percent jump that would put it in orbit with some of the state’s worst fiscal crisis, those who have met with him said.
Arnold wouldn’t or couldn’t govern and now Californians will suffer. Isn’t this why Democrat Governor Gray Davis was recalled?
The California GOP made a big mistake with Arnold just like Minnesota did with Jesse Ventura.
Update:
Damn, did Hugh Hewitt get this wrong. And, to think he is supporting Romney for President. But, then again, so is Tony Strickland.
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Who is the Girlie Man, Arnold?
Is California Governor Arnod Schwarzenegger the legitimate GIRLIE MAN?
No, just a failed Governor ala Jesse Ventura.
Flap bets the California budget deficit next year will be north of $10 billion while Arnold plays with health care for illegal aliens and global warming law suits against the feds.
The Money Quote from the Governator:
“I am not suggesting that if we fix health care our budget problems disappear. But we also don’t need to get bogged down every year in a debate about cutting poor kids and their families from state health programs,” he said in a statement.
Update:
Arnold’s health care bill has finally made the legislature. The bill has NO authors since Schwarenegger has been unable to get a GOP legislator to sponsor the bill since it involves numerous tax increases.
Update #2:
The Democrat’s health care bill is here.Â
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Schwarzenegger Orders Plan for California Budget Cuts
Graphic Courtesy of Jay D. Dyson
First elected to bring fiscal order to California’s budget crisis, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday ordered California state government to plan for 10% budget cuts.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday ordered all state departments to draft plans for deep spending cuts after receiving word that California’s budget is plunging further into the red — largely because of the troubled housing market.
State officials have warned the governor that the likely deficit for next year has jumped from a few billion dollars to as much as $10 billion, threatening to wipe out the progress Schwarzenegger has claimed in getting the state’s accounts in order.
The Governator has FAILED to bring fiscal order to the California state budget. He has borrowed and spent and borrowed some more.
While the Governor has traveled across the globe spewing global warming initiatives (many of which codified in California law take effect well after Arnold leaves office), trade deals and other political fads, California’s structural deficit remains. So, how will Arnold respond?
By calling a Special Session of the California Legislature to spend an additional $14 billion a year for a health plan that includes illegal aliens.
Flap would recommend to the Governor that he pay attention to the job he was elected. But, it is far easier to cut the budget, blame someone (housing crisis, Bush, etc.) and return to the Hollywood social scene in three years.
Leadership is not Arnold’s forte.
Update:
Flap’s California State Senator Tom McClintock is NOT shocked. And, why should he be?
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Deal with Democrats over Health Care?
Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gestures during a talk to the Silicon Valley Leadership Group in San Jose, Calif., Friday, Nov. 2, 2007.
California Legislative Democrats have offered California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger a deal over a reform health care proposal.
Democratic leaders on Monday agreed to key elements of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s health care reform plan, including mandatory insurance, according to a spokesman for Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez.
Dan Weintraub at the Sacramento Bee’s Capital Alert has some of the details here.
The Democrats will unveil their plan officially tomorrow morning.
The Governor and Democrat dominated Legislature have only a few weeks to craft a compromise proposal to go before voters in November 2008. GOP members of the California Legislature have already rebuffed the Governor and will not support any tax increases to fund the Governor’s reform plan.
Even if Arnold and the Democrats agree to a plan, it will be an uphill battle for voter approval next year.
Stay tuned……
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Arnod Schwarzenegger Says No to Senator Barbara Boxer Challenge
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told the truth above. So, you have to believe him when he says he is not interested in Barbara Boxer’s job, right?
Maybe he is laughing now because he ONLY leads Boxer by 1 percentage point and doesn’t want her to use him to raise campaign money.
It is early in any case.
Stay tuned……
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks about his life as a bodybuilder and his relationship with his wife, Maria Shriver, during a speach to the Silicon Valley Leadership Group in San Jose, Calif. on Friday, Nov. 2, 2007.
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Hillary Clinton Flip Flops on Drivers Licenses for Illegal Aliens
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Hillary has just put California and other Western states in play for the GOP Presidential race.Flap sees the direct mail and the television commercials now.
Thanks Hillary.
Since California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed illegal aliens drivers license bills a number of times will he do television for the GOP Presidential nominee?
Probably, since he will likely challenge Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer in 2010.
Stay tuned……..
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Beating Barbara Boxer for U.S. Senate in Latest Poll
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, shakes hands with emergency personnel before a football game in San Diego Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, during a pre-game ceremony honoring emergency personnel who responded to the California wildfires. Schwarzenegger’s highly visible handling of the fires gave him a boost at a time when his legislative agenda has stalled.
Flap told you that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would be a formidable foe to California Senator Barbara Boxer.
The poll which was taken before the Governator’s high profile role in the California Wildfire Crisis is here.
Flap says it is the Governator’s race to lose. Barbara Boxer has NEVER had a well-funded or popular opponent.
But, will Arnold want it?
Stay tuned…..
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Arnold Signs Car Tax Increase Bill Into Law
Britain’s Conservative Party leader David Cameron, left, meets with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at his office smoking tent in Sacremento in California Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. Cameron is on a three-day visit to the west coast of America.
Motorist fee increases signed by governor
Acting on the last batch of bills from what experts called a disappointing regular legislative year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday signed into law a controversial increase in motorists’ fees that is intended to raise millions to develop alternative fuel and clean-air technology.
Consumer advocates condemned the bill for putting the costs on the backs of motorists rather than oil companies.
Registration costs will go up $3 per year for all vehicles and a smog abatement charge on new cars will jump from $12 to $20 a year.
Although this is a small and modest increase, Arnold was first elected in a recall election by promising a roll back of the “car tax” and a no “new taxes” pledge.
Is this the start of Arnold’s post-partisan assault on California taxpayers?
Probably.
Schwarzenegger has NOT settled the multi-billion dollars of structural deficit in any of HIS state budgets.
Look for the Governator next year to negotiate with the majority Democrats to approve programs which would require across the board tax increases. Will there be GOP support since California law requires a 2/3’rds vote of the California Legislature to approve them?
No. There will be NO GOP support for either the programs or tax increases.
Arnold will put the tax increases on the ballot, circumventing his own party.
Flap doubts they will pass and Arnold will be portrayed as just another TYPICAL POL who taxes and spends his way to electoral bliss.
Arnold is heading the way of his fellow Predator actor, Jesse Ventura.
Stay tuned……..
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