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To: doodlelady
I love Tom's closing statement in his Chronicle debate with Garamendi . . .

This one?

. . . I think that this debate has brought into sharp focus the difference between our approaches to these basic fundamental questions of how much we are putting into Government and how little we are getting back from it. I believe that government is taxing too much and is spending what it taxes unwisely. I also believe we could be producing the California that once was if we make these basic and fundamental changes in the way the state is doing business. . . .

A generation ago, this really was the land of opportunity; the golden state where families could come looking for a better future. What has changed is a massive increase in spending, bureaucracy and regulations that has choked off our economy and is now producing for the second time in the state's history a net out-migration of Californians. The population continues to grow, but that is all either indigenous population growth or foreign immigration growth, most of that illegal. More Californians are leaving California than are coming in and they are finding better futures out in the middle of the Nevada and Arizona deserts than they found here in this beautiful garden of our continent. Now, I can conceive of no act of god possible that could wreak such havoc upon California to make it less desirable than the middle of the Nevada nuclear test range. Only acts of government could do that and we have. The good news is, that's something we can fix. We are always one election away from being able to change those policies. I believe that this is that election. . . .

To all, link to debate:

Lt. Governor candidates: Tom McClintock (R) and John Garamendi (D). October 23, 2006 (Archived Video)


11 posted on 10/24/2006 3:07:00 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

Yes ~ thank you. Wonderful.


12 posted on 10/24/2006 3:14:25 PM PDT by b9 ("the [evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat Party] alternative is unthinkable" ~ Jim Robinson)
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