Oh, this is rich: "... governing is what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger finally is doing." If Californians are dumb enough to go for that swindle they deserve every bit of the miserable consequences they are about be to inundated with.
Stopping the government from growing and "blowing up the boxes" were the very imperatives the Terminator asked us to embrace by voting out Davis. And Ms. Saunders, as you yourself pointed out in a recent column which I guess you've already tried to consign to the land of Alzheimer's, what Termybaby did to cast a protective shell around those boxes and stuff them full of more and more metasticizing civil servants trumps Davis on all counts. It also proclaims to the world what a bunch of idiotic suckers the voters of California are.
But the truly grotesque irony of all this is how, even as Termybaby embarked on one of the greatest races to grow government of all time, he started us fresh out of the gate with the 4 billion dollar deficit he created by ripping that money out of the General Fund and handing it over to the slobbering mob as a vehicle tax rebate. That, of course, was delivering on the bribe he had offered in exchange for their vote.
The state has been running an increasing deficit ever since, and the kind of hypocrisy now being peddled by Termybaby and that one-third-plus gang of thugs in the Legislature who refuse to vote for a tax increase is just soooo Republican: Move in, raid the coffers, and then beat it out of town and leave the rest of us with a rotten infrastructure and an empty, bankrupt piggy bank.
Sound familiar? In California here we're just a few sad steps behind the Madoffing we got from the Bush Administration. And of course, as Termybaby starts having to deal with the repo man, he's shocked to find out there's gambling going on in the house.
Sadder and more ironic still, taxes will go up, sooner or later. They'll skyrocket. The later it happens, the greater will be the price tag. The roof is leaking, the frame and foundation are rotting, and continuing to defer the long overdue maintenance just means it's going to cost exponentially more to fix this old house in the end.
Yes, we have to live "within our means", as Termybaby's newfound wisdom proclaims, but we also have to pay our debts. The money's been spent. However unwisely (and yup, Termybaby, we're talking about you--you are the one, after all, who could have wielded that magic line-item veto any time you wanted), the money's been spent, and the obligation to pay it back doesn't change just because it's the taxpayers who get the bill. If he'd finally gotten to "governing," he'd be standing up right now to those get-something-for-nothing, right-wing terrorists in the Legislature and ending the big game of chicken they're getting such a rush out of playing with our future.