So where is the 10 billlion going to come from after Arnold cuts taxes?

I would rather have better public higher education and slightly higher taxes.

But what do I know? Florida doesn't do income tax, and I went to out-of-state private schools. :confused:

Only in America can a former Mr. Olympia from Austria become governor of California. ;)

I'm concerned that this might be a rude awakening for some of the people who elected him. He may be a Republican, but he seems very progressive.

My desire generally is to try not to make decisions on a "Republican/Democrat -- Conservative/Liberal" reasoning because I don't consider myself any of the above.

And, I'm pretty tired of hearing the sanctimonious baying from both sides.

However, when the present governor of Colorado (Republican) took office, the state had a huge budget surplus handed over by the previous governor and fairly evenly divided legislature. He ran on a tax cut platform, cut taxes and now we have a huge budget crisis.

President Bush ran on a tax cut platform. There was allegedly a surplus and we were paying off the national debt. So, we get a nominal tax cut, and a very expensive war at the same time. I might be OK with one or the other. But do the Arithmetic -- it's not even tough enough to be called Math. You simply can't spend more and take in less and expect it to work -- I don't care which party is in or who is President.

Unless, of course, you drastically cut costs and programs.

By the time tax cuts are spread across the general population, they really don't mean much in terms of spendable income. They are a purely political animal -- something to get people elected -- and, unfortunately the average taxpayer/voter doesn't realize how little it actually puts back in her/his pocket as opposed to the effect on the lives of everyone.

Edited to try to catch all of the typos and spelling errors.

Welcome to Texas!!!!

They officially uncapped tuiton for public universities so now they can charge whatever!

1. He better repeal the car tax or we are going to have a lot of unregistered cars, including mine, driving around. My reg fees for my 2003 VW were already $500, and now they are going to be $1500?? I don't think so.

2. Los Angeles county also voted against the recall. Which is pretty much how I thought it would end up-- LA and Bay Area against it.

This is going to be incredibly weird. I was on the mindset that even if we the recall came through, can the new governor really be capable enough to handle all the financial burdens the state is facing. I honestly think Arnold only won for the fact that everyone knows him. My mom even once told me, "If I register to vote, I would just vote for Arnold since I know the actor." Btw, she didn't register. Anyhow we'll see how this all plays out.

The issue isn't NO car tax, but don't raise the car tax by 300% which is what Davis did. Californians already pay one of the highest car registration rates in the country, and like I said in my last post $1500 to register my $25K car is ridiculous!

I agree!!!! We have a 1948 Willy Jeep that my husband uses for put around town and out registration hiked to over $400...I don't think so....I had to non-op it until the car tax drops.

My car registration is up in December... Thank goodness I got my paperwork last week! I sure did register it online, at $95, instead of waiting until December and paying almost $300. BTW, I have a 1993 Ford Taurus.

About the school tuition. We've already felt the pain of this. I am enrolled in a 3-unit class (that's it... only one class) and my tuition at a CSU is $850!! :eek: Our community colleges have gone up too. It use to be that CC's were free, now students have to pay around $20 a unit.

My feeling about Arnold being elected is shock! I honestly don't understand how so many Californian's could vote for someone who wasn't experienced in politics, especially with this big burden of the budget to face. (I obvisouly didn't vote for him...) I was talking with some family members of mine, and they told me that they were gonna vote for him, only because they knew that everyone else was going to, so why split the vote? WTF??? Why not vote for who you think is most qualified??? Isn't that what you're suppose to do??? I donno... I pray that he can handle it, and actually follow through with his promises, unlike all politicians before him.

omg, have you seen 'the fabulous life of arnold'? he is worth over 800 million. he owns 9 hummers, 3 mercedes, 1 cadillac, 1 porshe, 1 tank, 1 plane, and i forget the rest. he lives the pefect life. and the fact that he is married to a kennedy, ....my word

Because our country was built on the fact that career politicians are not a good thing. Whether or not there are career politicians does not mean it's what's right.

-Rudey
--Your state is pretty messed up.

So, Arnold is A Moderate Rep! OOHY, Maria is a Demo Family! The word I get is She did the who will star with Arnold! Who will be on teheStar set and in the movie!

WOW Jessie Lucky you had just Minnesota!

While all I have have Read On Gray, he was a cold Fish and an Ass Whole!:o

But, one must really come to the Realization, the Legislature is the ones who really F Ued!

Welcome to the real world of Polotics!
:mad:

There asre still 3 separate divisions between both!

Ah Ca. the Landfill Of Fruits- O- Nurts! Oh for the Puristist of Ca. NUTS!:rolleyes:

Actually it was Gray who ran a scam on the media involving some major economic numbers and didn't release them until after his election.

-Rudey

Right you are!

I think Arnold winning will help the democrats in the long run. Just wait a year of him being in office and you will see what I mean.

nnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! bush rules! he needs to stay! :) :p

Someone please explain to me why anyone would need 9 hummers!! NO need!!

Maybe he should help the deficit and donate some of his own earnings, god knows he would still have enough to live off.

he was the first in the country to have a civilian hummer

Because Clinton decided he was going to auction some of the stuff he stole from the White House when he left to cover the deficit.

-Rudey
--Duh!

maybe thats Arnold's plan - he is going to donate his extreme wealth to get CA out of the budget crisis.

Wait wait wait!!!

You mean there really was a recall election and Arnold really ran and won?? Here in NJ we just thought it was a teaser for a new movie . . .

Truly, life is stranger than fiction . . .

GOP!!!
 

As an active member of the RNC I'm excited once again that GOP takes another Governship in a major state. Here in TX, FL, NY, CA all have (R) Governors. Now Arnie has to work with Legislature which is sadly dominated by democrats and liberals

== Sigh == I'm rather ashamed to be from a state being lead by "the Governator" We'll see what happens, if ole' Aronld can help get my tuition back down I may sing a different tune.. but personally I think that this recall was crazy from the beginning. I think recalls should be reserved for governers who are seriously abusing their powers...not as a way to use the governor as a scapegoat for the financial problems that THE WHOLE COUNTRY is also going through. == steps off soap box and moves to Montana==

Amen.

I'm just wondering how Maria Shriver feels about all this.

Deep down, she's got to be at little bit queasy.

whoa i am confused. (i am too lazy to go through this whole tread) did arnold actually win? or did he just win the republican candidate and there is another election later? i heard from someone that this it will take a month to decide who is the winner.

He's won... On the 19th we'll know for sure, because of all the absentee ballots and stuff. But it looks like he's def. gonna be the Governer.