Schwarzenegger to veto California budget

[voytechs]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/09/schwarzenegger.html

Wow, demanding spending cuts, that's a first. Good for Arnold.

"I have been very clear this entire year that I would be unable to sign a budget without meaningful budget reform," the governor wrote, stressing that spending cuts were needed.


State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, a Democrat, also assailed the budget plan, saying this morning that it "gives gimmicks a bad name."


"It's banana republic financing," Lockyer said. The spending plan relies on "phony money and phony estimates."


Update at 7 p.m. ET: "When they send me the budget, I will veto it," Schwarzenegger said at a Capitol news conference, the Los Angeles Times reports. "If my veto is overriden," he said, " ... hundreds of bills will be vetoed."

 

[Deborah K]

He needs to veto the Real ID bill that's hitting his desk too.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

AWESOME... the damn Socialists in CA have ruined that state.

Hell, CA desk clerks and cops are making over 100K a year, plus a Primo benefits and retirement... they're paying Graduate SW developers 75-90K a year and a crap shoot on bennies.

The state is upside down, but it gives you a simile of the country under Barak Obama

 

[Dorfsmith]

About time Arnold did the right thing.

 

[danberkeley]

Yeah, the Democrats here (California) are slamming Arnold because he wanted to pay the goverments empoyees the federal minimum wage. But they never asked themselves how the state was going to pay those employees otherwise.

 

[0zzy]

Yeah, the Democrats here (California) are slamming Arnold because he wanted to pay the goverments empoyees the federal minimum wage. But they never asked themselves how the state was going to pay those employees otherwise.

how? how!?

 

[Pauls' Revere]

Good!

 

[Arklatex]

Did someone here send him a copy of the Manifesto?

 

[danberkeley]

how? how!?

how, how what?

 

[LiveFree79]

AWESOME... the damn Socialists in CA have ruined that state.

Hell, CA desk clerks and cops are making over 100K a year, plus a Primo benefits and retirement... they're paying Graduate SW developers 75-90K a year and a crap shoot on bennies.

The state is upside down, but it gives you a simile of the country under Barak Obama

It's pretty ignornat to lump cops and desk clerks into the same category. No reason why SW developers shouldn't make as much or as little as cops, RN's, Teachers, etc. Desk clerks making 100K a year is ridiculous. Funny thing is 100K a year isn't a whole heck of a lot out here in California. But I do agree with the benefits thing. A little excessive for cops to retire with 80% pay or whatever at 45.

 

[Deborah K]

It's not over. Heard on the news that the legislature has enough votes to override. Those of us in Cali need to call our assemblymen/women and pressure them into not overriding.

 

[Dorfsmith]

True but Arnold said if they override it he will veto everything that crosses his desk. That alone should stop a lot of spending

 

[John E]

I wish Arnold could run for president

 

[New York For Paul]

Please lets not get carried away.

 

[Dorfsmith]

Agreed. Arnold has been really terrible up to now.

 

[Knighted]

California can keep him, but at least he's acting wisely at the moment.