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Originally Posted by scottmandue
Hopefully we will elect a Governor with some business sense this time and not a pretty boy who thinks he can placate the public with cutesy sound bites.
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I'm no fan of Arnie, but our budgetary crisis rests completely with the legislature. They have consistently refused to control spending in any meaningful way. In 2000, our state budget was a little more than $50 Billion. When Arnold begged the senate leadership to set the 2009 budget at $100 billion instead of the proposed $105 Billion he was accused of hurting the poor, the minorities, immigrants, etc.
Arnold is no genius, but he's had NO SUPPORT in trying to limit government spending. None.