http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/schwarzenegger/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:33:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417829/posts The governors of the nation’s two largest Democratic states are leveling sharp criticism at the Senate health care bill, claiming that it would leave their already financially strapped states even deeper in the hole. New York Democratic Gov. David Paterson and California GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are urging congressional leaders to rework the Medicaid financing in the Senate-passed bill, warning that under that version their states will be crushed by billions in new costs. After the Senate passed the bill in a Christmas Eve vote, Paterson said the expansion would leave New York $1 billion in the lurch. The state... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417829/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:33:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416290/posts During his first year in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger railed against state lawmakers, calling them "girlie men" and "obstructionists." As he enters his final year, Schwarzenegger is targeting a different branch of government: judges who "are going absolutely crazy." The Republican governor openly complains about the judiciary these days for blocking budget decisions and forcing California to find billions of dollars elsewhere. Recent judgments have contributed to the state's $20.7 billion projected deficit. Courts have ruled that California's attempts to divert transit and redevelopment money are illegal. They have found in some cases that the state cannot furlough workers. They... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416290/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:53:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415807/posts California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, anticipating a $21 billion state budget deficit, plans to ask President Barack Obama to ease mandates and minimums on social programs to save as much as $8 billion. The Republican governor plans to seek the relief, according to a California official who asked not to be identified because details haven’t been resolved. Instead of seeking one-time stimulus money or a bailout, the most-populous U.S. state wants the federal government to reduce mandates and waive rules stipulating expenditures on programs such as indigent health care, the official said. California is among states most affected by the economic... Business Week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415807/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:06:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414795/posts States: The once-great state of California has been reduced to begging from the federal government. But no matter how much help the feds give, the state's fiscal ills won't end until its lawmakers stop spending money. To say California is a mess is an understatement. In the current fiscal year, the state is expected to post a deficit of $21 billion as the budget continues to spiral out of control. Even after last year's epic budget battle, when Californians were hit with $12.5 billion in new taxes and $6 billion more in borrowing, the state still isn't close to bringing... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414795/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:35:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414218/posts Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken advantage of the holiday lull before the next state budget storm to serve notice on the federal government that he will come looking for billions more in aid. Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, also hinted that he might extend furloughs for state workers beyond next summer and revive a contentious plan to allow oil drilling off the Santa Barbara County coast. Budget advisers have also discussed paring corporate tax breaks that Republican lawmakers have insisted on. The governor is expected to unveil a proposal to right the state’s dismal finances in early January. But pieces of... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414218/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:49:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414055/posts As this page has long noted, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s goal of being revered as a global green giant has a potentially huge downside for California’s economy. The governor considers AB 32 – the landmark 2006 anti-global warming state law that forces increased use of cleaner but costlier forms of energy – his greatest achievement. But ever since the bill’s adoption, Schwarzenegger has found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his claims to support economic growth with his environmental policies, which add unique costs to California businesses not borne by their rivals in other states and nations. His cheerleading for ever-more-onerous regulations... San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414055/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:28:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414005/posts Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to save $1.6 billion in state employee costs by maintaining monthly furloughs past next June, instituting layoffs or shifting general fund workers into positions financed by other revenues, according to sources familiar with the governor's forthcoming budget proposal. California faces a $20.7 billion general fund budget deficit through June 2011, according to an estimate by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office. Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414005/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:51:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413796/posts California got $7 billion in state grants from Porkulus, and an opportunity to catch their breath while they attacked a monstrous state budget that desperately needs pruning. Congress has now begun to consider Porkulus II, with even more block grants for states, enabling them to paper over serious budget gaps. But that’s not enough for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who wants an additional $8 billion from the feds in order to bail out a state that seems incapable of governing itself: Facing a budget deficit of more than $20 billion, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to call for deep reductions in already... Hotair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413796/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413748/posts HE ASKS CONGRESS FOR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, LAW RELAXATION - As the U.S. Senate finalized its health care proposal, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Congress on Tuesday to add billions of dollars for California and relax existing laws, warning that the state otherwise may have to slash Medi-Cal benefits or eliminate its in-home care program.The Republican governor connected the long-term health care plan to California's current budget deficit, estimated to be $20.7 billion by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office. He suggested in a letter to Congress that the health care plan would lock in current federal reimbursement and eligibility policies that... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413748/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:30:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410700/posts Over the past few days, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been in Copenhagen making the bizarre claim to anyone who will listen that his job destroying environmental regulations are somehow good for the economy. He also made the even more off the wall assertion that America's economy would be stronger if only the entire country followed California's lead in this area, and that Governor Palin's common sense skepticism to the man-made global warming religion was somehow wrong. All of these musings by the Governator were forthcoming despite the fact that foisting his regulations on California's economy have chased businesses and the jobs... Conservatives4Palin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410700/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:45:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412253/posts Washington (CNN) – Not every Republican is a critic of President Obama. At least one thinks the president is doing a fine job – at least when it comes to the effort involved in being the country’s chief executive. Asked to give Obama a grade as the end of the president’s first year in office approaches, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s Republican governor, gave Obama high marks. “When it comes to effort, [Obama] should get a straight A,” Schwarzenegger told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King in an interview that aired Sunday on State of the Union. “He’s out there with tremendous... CNN Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412253/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:49:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411643/posts Not billions, but trillions of dollars will change hands. Government control like you’ve never even dreamed of will come to pass. Taxes will flow into incompetent government hands like never before. Energy will “necessarily skyrocket.” Of course, the real story is all of the money that will be made trading “carbon credits.” Al Gore, the Bernie Madoff of the climate change movement, has made hundreds of millions of dollars already off this scam, and stands to make billions. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411643/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:37:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410051/posts Leadership: Alaska's ex-governor asks a question we'd like answered: Why is California's current governor pushing the same policies in Copenhagen that helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment? The movie series that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name involved cyborgs traveling through time to alternately try to destroy or save one John Connor, who would grow up to be the leader of the resistance against a race of machines that ruled the planet. Prominent in the series was his tough cookie of a mom, Sarah Connor. Another Sarah has taken the lead in another resistance against another group... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410051/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:37:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410712/posts Shedding jobs that once reliably attracted new residents, California grew at a slower pace this year than all but two other years since 1900, according to state Department of Finance figures released Thursday. The number of new births dropped. The number of new immigrants dropped. And more residents left California for other states than came here. The end result: Statewide growth from July 2008 to July 2009 was 350,000 people, or less than 1 percent. During the rest of the decade, California averaged 525,000 new residents each year. The four-county Sacramento region posted even more striking numbers, adding just 21,000... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410712/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:04:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409768/posts As if she didn't have enough adversaries, Sarah Palin has decided to mix it up with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ostensibly, the issue was global warming. Actually, it's about the future face of the Republican Party -- whose it will be, and the ideology that person brings to the table. The exchange of criticisms between the ex-governor of Alaska and the current California governor was provoked by comments Schwarzenegger made about Palin at the international summit on climate change in Copenhagen – a conference Palin not only avoided, but called on President Obama to boycott. With that, the gauntlet was thrown for... Politics Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409768/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:53:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408869/posts Video: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger bashes Sarah Palin for picking the economy over the environment. "The biggest jog creation is in green technology...people don't believe in fixing the envoronment or in global wrming...they are living in the stone age". He's talking about yesterday's USA poll which says that 7 out of 10 Americans believe that fixing the economy should be a higher priority than fixing the environment. Pesky humans may be able to "fix" the economy (except for California) but "fixing" the environment is an entirely different matter! How does one fix that which God created? Dittos Rush! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408869/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:10:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408643/posts <p>"Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen that have helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment?" Palin wrote on her Facebook page. "Perhaps he will recall that I live in our nation's only Arctic state and that I was among the first governors to create a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with climate change."</p> CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408643/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:38:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408417/posts Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen that have helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment? Perhaps he will recall that I live in our nation’s only Arctic state and that I was among the first governors to create a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with climate change. While I and all Alaskans witness the impacts of changes in weather patterns firsthand, I have repeatedly said that we can’t primarily blame man’s activities for those changes. And while I did look for practical responses to those changes, what I didn’t do was hamstring... Governor Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408417/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:58:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408263/posts Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took the stage in Copenhagen today to deliver his speech on combating climate change, but he also created buzz with a series of shots at 2008 GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin's global warming skepticism. "You have to ask: what was she trying to accomplish?" he told the Financial Times. "Is she really interested in this subject or is she interested in her career and in winning the [Republican] nomination [for president]? You have to take all these things with a grain of salt." SacBee: Capitol Alert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408263/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:55:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408260/posts CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Schwarzenegger slams Palin « - Blogs from CNN.com http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408260/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:52:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408051/posts COPENHAGEN (CBS 5 / AP) ― California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says world policymakers do not have to choose between a clean environment and economic growth. .. "we've proved that over and over again in California." .. he thinks world leaders may be risking setback by pushing so aggressively for an accommodation on curbs to heat-trapping emissions. .. people worried about climate change should pay more attention to companies, universities and "ordinary folks" and not put so much emphasis on a multinational consensus. He said that type of thinking is "setting yourself up for failure." .. poor nations have a right... cbs5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408051/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:58:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407894/posts California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is delivering his big speech in Copenhagen right now -- but before he took the stage he offered an opening salvo -- a whack at fellow Republican Sarah Palin who has expressed skepticism about global warming. The FT, which is on quite a roll: The California governor has become an environmental standard bearer for the Republican party, which is split on the merits of curbing emissions. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, has attacked cap and trade and questioned any link between man-made emissions and global warming. “You have to ask:... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407894/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:43:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407374/posts This week, leaders from around the world gather here, in a quest for a global pact to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and tackle the single greatest challenge of our time. I am joining them to discuss the urgency of their efforts, the economic opportunities we can seize, and the tremendous role of subnational governments in climate-change mitigation. CSMonitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407374/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:14:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402480/posts California: While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger worries about rising seas, his state sinks below the waves. Don't mess with Texas, they say. But California and the nation could follow its lead. Last Wednesday, Gov. Schwarzenegger released a new report based on research compiled by the California Energy Commission claiming that by 2100 San Francisco Bay would be more bay than San Francisco, with Fisherman's Wharf and Treasure Island under the rising waters of climate change. His show-and-tell, which included a new Google Earth application the commission spent $150,000 to help develop, goes a long way toward explaining the once-Golden State's slide... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402480/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:10:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401026/posts Ah...nold Schwarzenegger takes us on a computer generated tour designed to promote awareness of the challenges Ah...nold faces from climate change in California. You know, seasons like spring, summer, winter and fall! And......he does it with a straight face! Deception knows no socia-economic-racial boundries! Dittos Rush! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401026/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:16:19 GMT