JIMV on May 29, 2009 at 12:33 PM

but it doesn’t start w/’that million’…It starts like a serious North-eastern blizzard….one flake..than 2…then a flurry of’em….than snowed in.

Still, pretty good actor.

dominigan on May 29, 2009 at 8:14 AM

I saw it too and knew what he was talking about. Man..Id hate to be in California if Ahrnold stops those welfare payments.

You can make some arguments that this has already been done through earmarks for special projects… but this would be the last straw for many. It would indicate the end of the republic in the literal sense, with the Federal Government absorbing “ownership” of California. All you have to do is look at car companies and think “too big to fail”… and wonder what percent of California would be demanded by the Obama administration.

What next, asking Sybil Danning what she thinks?

Bishop on May 28, 2009 at 8:42 PM

Now THAT’S a blast from the past!

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants – Thomas Jefferson

Let’s roll.

Polar Opposites Dept.

On that tv show, his wife was played by Leftist Missus Mike Farrell.

Del Dolemonte on May 28, 2009 at 10:29 PM

Good point. I liked BJ Hunnicut, but, man, that Farrell is as left as they git out there in the hills of Hollywood.

Anyone remember Call to Glory?

Yep, he was Col Raynor Sarnac, USAF pilot.

MagLev from LA to SF–scrap it. 9 billion in bonds to get the land and do cost studies. Contemplated it will take 75 billion to fully fund it…without overruns.

Stem Cell research—let the private sector fund it, California doesnt need to. 5 billion dollar bond used to pay for it.

California Domestic product slumps? Start writing in budget cuts to employee funds–so if the state gets less by overtaxing the departments must cut, whether by employee reduction or wage cuts.

True oversight, assign 10 current legislative staffers on the budget committee (note I said current staffers, no increase on employees) to do nothing but find programs that are wasting money or arent showing results. Then publish the findings and cut them, bet it becomes a tremendously popular government program.

Eliminate unions from state budgets. All state employee contracts are year to year, if they dont like it, they can go somewhere that they have to actually work for a living. Allowing tax payer funded jobs to unionize is the absolute height of folly.

Shoulder check the state and Fed EPA to show that wildlife protection must occur in a given habitat if and only if relocation isnt viable if it is, a given group of animals should be moved to allow for a business to not fear multi year litigation which costs the state AND the business.

Illegals. Dont just enforce border protection, stregnthen it in fact. Build an actual fence, finish the fence and start deporting all illegals guilty of any crime short of a capital offense. Fence costs you say? Make the current illegals doing time do the grunt work of digging and allow contractors to do the work that takes building skills. Defund bilingual teaching. Assimilation works to strengthen American identity and enforcing bilingualism is a major drain on the school system and reinforces an entitlement mentality.

Set a mandatory rainy day fund per county to be used only in the event of a deficit, that money will be used only to fund emergency services. All other spending to be cut until the budget corrects. Do the same on the state level.

How about we start with just those.

I will pay the taxes that I cannot avoid paying, but I will shelter every penny I can. Meanwhile, I will go after every government penny I can get. Also (and I know this sounds terrible), I am not giving to charities. If my money is going to be TAKEN from me and redistributed, then I will no longer donate out of my own free will.

Star20 on May 28, 2009 at 9:02 PM

You’re not the only one, if that’s any consolation. I stopped purchasing things and stopped giving to charity some months ago, when I figured out which way the wind was blowing.

…can’t quite pinpoint what his problem is.

Allahpundit, you dolt, the problem is income tax.

Remember it was enacted to pay for WW2 and that is over in case you haven’t noticed.

If there were no income tax like we suffer today not one of those stinking politicians would be employed and the people would figure out a fair way to pay for necessary services.

King of the Britons on May 28, 2009 at 9:27 PM

The fact is his only specific was something he only knew about because of Beck opining that instead of reducing sea otter protection budget by 50%, the state should do so by 100%. But looking for savings in sea otters is about as effective as Obama cutting the debt by asking his cabinet to cut spending by $100 million. In fact, Nelson, like Obama, is proposing expanding the very programs that are already huge, the only ones from which substantial savings can come. Yes, prisons are necessary, but I bet guards could live with a smaller income and not all the prisoners currently incarcerated under California’s strict sentencing rules need to remain locked up. Schools are necessary, but there are some instances in which larger class sizes wouldn’t be a tragedy. These places are where the real money lies. Instead we’ve got someone complaining about the budget being cut in particular programs while wanting to cut the budget in some vague, magical way. And complaining when the representatives he voted for aren’t doing so! That’s not what the tea parties were about, and we shouldn’t give the left an opportunity to say otherwise by applauding Nelson.