You might hate this debut shuffling too but if it gives CA the room necessary to grow its way free and clear of the giant sink whole caused by Davis and the union-bought cleptocrats in the Legislature then I have no qualms with it. Would you rather he raise taxes and continue on the path of doom? Do you realize just HOW MUCH of the budget is mandated by automated increases? The governor's tried other things such as cutting waste and doing an audit but there are systemic problems suffocating the state long term.
Debt shuffling? He is proposing to authorize the issuance of bonds for current and future unfunded spending, i.e. new debt. Most of this is not caused by Davis, and blaming everything on the guy that left a year and a half ago is getting old. This is spending that Arnold has allowed by proposing ever increasing budgets and deferring expenses that should have been funded through current revenue. He ran on a platform of CUT, CUT, CUT and is instead proposing to BORROW, BORROW, BORROW.
The governor's tried other things such as cutting waste and doing an audit but there are systemic problems suffocating the state long term.
He abandoned the audit in favor of the California Performance Review and "blowing up boxes." The CPR was a mishmash of unsupported proposals that saved very little money. Instead of sifting through it for anything worthwhile, he abandoned that too. Arnold is adding to the systemic problems by loading us down with debt service that will not be paid back for decades to come.