Governor predicts disaster for state if voters defeat measure

San Mateo County Times ^ | February 14, 2004 | Steve Geissinger

[calcowgirl]

Even though Schwarzenegger portrays bipartisan support for the deficit bond as a major departure from political gridlock at the Capitol, pundits say the proposal really represents nothing more than business-as-usual in Sacramento.

Officeholders on both sides of the aisle aren't willing to confront the politically tough choice of draconian spending cuts or higher taxes. So, as in previous years, they are resorting to borrowing to cover the persistent deficit.

Only this time, they are asking voters to decide the matter in a move that takes even more pressure off them.

Keep the pressure ON! Vote NO on Proposition 57/58.

[So Cal Rocket]

Schwarzenegger is portraying his bond initiative as a choice between empowering the public or allowing overspending politicians alone to chart the state's future, and he's warning that if voters reject Proposition 57 it would mean severe, across-the-board slashes in state spending. "We would have to make drastic cuts, deep cuts. I call them Armageddon cuts. Cuts in services that we don't want to make," he said at a recent pro-Proposition 57 event. "It would be devastating."

Arnold just convinced me to vote "NO".

[Enterprise]

"Governor predicts disaster for state if voters defeat measure"

Bring it on.

[45Auto]

"...if voters reject Proposition 57 it would mean severe, across-the-board slashes in state spending. "We would have to make drastic cuts, deep cuts. I call them Armageddon cuts"

I like the sound of that. The clowns in the Cal legislature want the voters to let them off the hook so in the future they can continue their addiction to more and more money to turn their little dictatorship-state into the Marxist Vermin's paradise they have always envisioned. The above is the ONLY answer to the long-term fix; a whole lot of people are going to have to suffer because the commies cannot curtail their spending spree. This is the price of fiscal illiteracy.

I might have been persuaded to vote for this IF the rotten commies had agreed to a Constitutional cap on future spending - something with real teeth in it. But, no, they are once again trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the vast pool of moronic sheeple voters. I say let it crash and burn. Threats of increased taxation should this not pass are just so much BS. Let's see the bastards actually put their votes ON RECORD so we will know who the commies are (as if we didn't already.)

[Hank Rearden]

Can you Californians fix it so it's a disaster for the government parasites? Time for them, and their union thug supporters, to writhe in pain for a few years.

[Amerigomag]

Schwarzenegger is warning that if voters reject Proposition 57 it would mean severe, across-the-board slashes in state spending.

Yup. Arnie's our champion.

Just like he said he would "roll back" the car tax and led the voters to believe he was opposed to issuing California IDs to illegal aliens.

Yup, Arnie's the man ... to lead California down a well worn path of financial ruin through good social intentions.

[Lancey Howard]

"Governor predicts disaster for state if voters defeat measure"

And....? The "state" can drop dead. Nobody will notice unless the wailing parasite class howls too loudly.

[Enterprise]

Vw must brink back the businesses so ve can pay for all da social programs.

[verity]

it's a test of Arnold's ability to lead,"

Trying to lead Californians is the equivalent of herding cats.

[El Cid]

The draconian 'Armageddon' fix I want to see is the privatization of the K-12 school system. Stop the state funding of this failed enterprise and save $43B a year. Sell/lease off the property and gain back some more.
I don't know when government schools became vogue (I'm guessing the mid 1800s) - but they aren't a necessity, nor a right - and with each passing generation they become less of a benefit and more of a detriment.

[Enterprise]

Oooooooooh. I LIKE that! Privatize the schools.! Get the STATE OUT OUT OUT of them!!!!

[river rat]

"...and then for him to persuade a Democrat-dominated Legislature to join him in paring the rest from programs.

NO!
Show me the cuts in spending FIRST --

I want to see DEEP BLEEDING cuts first - and then perhaps if the budget makes sense - perhaps THEN we could vote for a solution.....

Until I see DEEP CUTS first - I will reject everything that adds taxes, debt or changes the rules for changing our tax laws...

Semper Fi

[NormsRevenge]

Bump

[umgud]

Completely cut all school funding tomorrow, and those studnets who desire an education will still find a way to get one.

Increase education funding a thousandfold tomorrow,and those students who don't want to get an education still won't get one.

[calcowgirl]

Come up for air? ;-)
Here's one for ya: Arnie and Nascar

[goldstategop]

What would be a disaster for California is if the state refuses to get its fiscal house in order by cutting spending and reducing taxes first. We need to try it before we borrow an astronomical sum of money as a budget gimmick.

[Texas Eagle]

Dammit. First he wants 500 million dollars for Midnight Badminton and now he wants another 15 billion dollars?

Forget it. Try cutting 15 billion dollars worth of spending.

[Carry_Okie]

"We would have to make drastic cuts, deep cuts. I call them Armageddon cuts. Cuts in services that we don't want to make," he said at a recent pro-Proposition 57 event. "It would be devastating."

After a 45% run up in five years, a 13.5% cut is all it would take.

Arnold Schwarzenetgger is a liar.

[Carry_Okie]

I don't know when government schools became vogue (I'm guessing the mid 1800s) - but they aren't a necessity, nor a right - and with each passing generation they become less of a benefit and more of a detriment.

It started with Horace Mann and John Dewey, both committed socialists. The whole purpose of public schools was to make America ready for socialism. Read The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto.