Our
View: Sacramento to be terminated
Ah,
the long wait has finally come to an end.
Today, Schwarzenegger takes the oath, and
hopefully keeps at least one of the promises
he made on his campaign march. With the
amount of deficit he has inherited, his
many promises, from repealing the tripling
of the car tax to protecting education,
which accounts for $100 million of the state's
budget, may be a little bit harder to keep
than they were to make.
We
have hashed this over many times before.
We all know what needs to happen to keep
this state afloat without major help. We
need a miracle.
We
have a large deficit and a debt ratio that
has led some leading financial officers
of the state to recommend not taking out
a $20 billion loan like Schwarzenegger would
like to. Even though he said he wouldn't.
We
have a senator on the other side of the
country telling us what laws we can and
cannot make about small motors on lawnmowers
and blowers that cause 20 percent of our
smog, not theirs.
We
still have issues with Pacific Gas &
Electric, Enron and other energy companies
ripping us off and never paying us back
that Davis could never get Bush to help
us out with.
We've
heard that Schwarzenegger has cracked the
books and found that Bustamante was right,
the fat has been trimmed; now the only thing
that's left is the muscle.
What
we want to know is whether or not while
Schwarzenegger is busy giving refunds on
the car tax and looking at rates for a $20
billion loan, what is he going to do about
the economy? What about the jobs he promised
once he got those businesses back? How is
he going to get anything done in the short
time he has left, roughly three years, while
battling problem after problem from huge
deficits to raging wildfires.
We're
ready to see the Terminator take California
by storm, and deliver on all of those sweet
deals he promised the California voters.
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