[goldstategop]

Start by cutting the state workforce and imposing an across the board hiring freeze for unfilled vacancies. It should generate cost savings along with cutting corporate welfare and imposing a moratorium on new regulations. Such steps along with the creation of a rainy day expense fund should be the beginning of getting out of the budget mess. It won't be cured by going on a borrowing binge and increasing already sky-high taxes. What remains to be seen is if Governor Gray Davis and the Rats in Sacramento are willing to bite the bullet and take the difficult decisions in an election year. If they do, Republicans are prepared to put partisanship aside for the good of our state and its inhabitants. If they stick to the old and failed tax and spend nostrums that got us into this trouble, they can count on a very difficult rest of the year ahead. The next move's up to Gov. Davis and his party.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What remains to be seen is if Governor Gray Davis and the Rats in Sacramento are willing to bite the bullet and take the difficult decisions in an election year. If they do,

Not a chance that this will happen, their voters would be terribly angry!