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    Default Der Governator makes the to 10 Liberals list ...

    actually Ahnold was ranked as the #8 Liberal in the world

    ... didn't he run for office as a (fiscal) conservative ?



    (snip)"Schwarzenegger was swept into the governor’s office to replace embattled Gov. Gray Davis in October 2003 with the promise that he’d reduce debt and “tear up the state’s credit card.” Four years later, however, falling tax revenues have forced the state to borrow $7 billion just to pay its recent bills.

    In the three months ended Sept. 30, the state has spent $10.2 billion more than it received in taxes and fees, according to state officials. The annual shortfall is expected to be between $6 billion and $9 billion.

    The sale during the first week of November of the so-called "revenue-anticipation notes" or bonds is the largest since the state issued $6 billion in similar securities in 2003 to close the budget gap that signaled the end of the Davis administration.

    California sold $3 billion in revenue-anticipation notes in 2006 and $1.5 billion for fiscal 2007, according to state figures.

    ``The continuing slump in the housing market has been a drag on the economy and that has a spillover effect on state revenue,'' Schwarzenegger’s budget spokesman H.D. Palmer tells Bloomberg. ``It's very likely going to involve some very difficult decisions on the spending side.''

    One out of every 250 homes in California is facing foreclosure, the third highest rate in the nation behind Nevada and Florida, according to RealtyTrac Inc.

    Despite the backlash for such budget problems against Davis, Schwarzenegger seems thus far immune. He’s riding a continuing wave of popularity built on an increasingly centrist agenda and augmented by a strong showing in media during the recent California wildfires.

    But that positive public picture won’t last once the full depth of the state’s budget morass is revealed, critics charge.

    The governor’s new $145 billion budget proposal is weighed down with items such as his health care reform plan, which looks to provide coverage to some six million uninsured Californians, at an estimated cost of more than $14 billion.

    “Gov. Schwarzenegger’s budget runs the very real risk of plunging California into insolvency within the next two years,” Republican State Sen. Tom McClintock of Thousand Oaks, Calif., tells Newsmax. He adds that the Schwarzenegger administration has “employed accounting gimmickry that would make an Enron accountant blush.”

    Examples of such “gimmickry” include Schwarzenegger’s unrealistically rosy projections for revenue increases that ignore California’s sinking housing market, rising unemployment and “brittle economy,” says McClintock.

    California’s constitution requires that the state budget be balanced, and Budget Director Mike Genest has asserted that the proposed budget “is, in fact, balanced. Under this plan, the state would not spend more than it collects in revenues for the coming fiscal year.”

    Still Genest conceded to the Sacramento Bee in October that “the revenue situation is not going to be as good as we had hoped.”

    Already Lockyer is predicting higher taxes, and a cutoff of taxpayer funding for the University of California. "(snip)

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    Default Re: Der Governator makes the to 10 Liberals list ...

    *sigh* Yeah. I voted for him twice. Won't do that again.

    It's one of the few times I was actually surprised and hurt when a politician lied. He did such a great job at first and he had such promise. It's a shame he caved to politics like they all do.

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    Default Re: Der Governator makes the to 10 Liberals list ...

    He's married into the Kennedy's............. Don't let the colonel klink accent fool you. he is not conservative.

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    Melonie, when will you run for president?




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    Default Re: Der Governator makes the to 10 Liberals list ...

    Yeah, most Republicans are really liberals who masquerade as conservatives.

    G.W.Bush is actually a radical liberal extremist. He's much more liberal than Bill Clinton ever dreamed of being. Bush increased fed-spending 8% per year while Clinton increased spending 2% per year. Along with Bush's nation building and his destruction of the U.S. Constitution, Clinton looks like an ultra-conservative in comparison.

    Bush started the "Department of Homeland Security" and created the "Prescription Drug Program."

    I'm hoping that enough people will pull their heads out of their asses and support Ron Paul. I mean, what does it take for people to wake up? Do they have to be living in the steets, or have their son or daughter dying in Iraq or Iran? How may times will the people be fooled?

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    In New York we have an acronym for Republican politicians ... RINO's ... equals Republican In Name Only !

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