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Originally posted by fintstone
How can Arnold be expected to solve CA's problems when the citizens continue to vote enormous amounts of money to bond issues like they just did?...where do they thinkthat money comes from, anyways???You will probably have to eliminate quite a few more school programs while funding stem cell research!
Alas..the citizens of my county have never met a bond issue they didn't like either. I talked to dozens of people here after the recent election who vote "yes" to all the bond issues...but didn't know exactly what they were voting on with any of them. Several told me that they did so because, as advertised, they would not raise taxes...and of course "property taxes are too high and should be lowered."
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The stem cell research bond proposition (CA prop 71) was unusual. Arnold campaigned
for it. Californians voted for it, possibly as a "take that" to Bush. I voted against it (while I think embryonic stem cell research is a legitimate and worthwhile area of scientific research, I don't know why it should get vastly more funding than other areas of research or, as you point out, displace money that could go to education and other uses.