The governor's dramatic tactic to pressure the Legislature into passing a budget is making him look like he's picking on innocent people instead of slamming the incompetent lawmakers who aren't doing their jobs. Here's a good way to say it, courtesy of the talented pen of Rex Babin, cartoonist for the Sacramento Bee.
Schwarzenegger looks like a bully
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Right on Arnold. He is placing political pressure on the legislature, by implimenting these tactics. Pressure is spurring the phones of every Senator and Assemblyman ringing off the hook, with calls from all 200,000 state employees howling poor little oh me.
And before everyone gets hysterical, the state employees are going to get their paychecks in a round about way.
Drastic measures are needed to bring the spend-thrift Democrats, and a few RHINO's into the spotlight, and cut waste, and non-essential spending. We need to return to a government that puts safety, and security as the number one function of government. All else is up for elimination.
As the great Ronald Reagon said, "We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem."
Dittos Redpeach...I have little sympathy for state employees who have been complicit in sucking the state coffers dry. You live by the State...You die by the State. Let them find out what it is like to really work and pay your own way.
The State employees are doing a job to which they deserve to be paid properly for as told to them when they were hired. They have families to feed and bills to pay like the rest of us. You can't live on minimum wage especially with a family. They will have to get public assistance to supplement them which comes from the state budget as well so its really just a bandaid. Don't pay the ones that aren't doing their jobs like those that are supposed to pass the budget so they can see what its like to live on nothing. How sad that Brian is the only one who truly works in this world.
Arnold ain't that tall.
Lucky for people like Brian, those state employees will protect his home from fires, assist him if he's in an accident, repair the roads that lead to his neighborhood, and ensure that the doctors who attend to his healthcare are properly qualified, regardless of the uncharitable (need I say un-Christian) thoughts he has towards them.
Don't you guys listen to the news. State employees are not going without their pay. Numerous banks are contracted to guarantee state employee paychecks, when their is a budget crisis. This is not the first time this has occurred.
MIke D.-your venom against Christians is on full display, as always.
Venom against Christians? My, what a persecution complex you've got there, Redpeach. Since I equated "uncharitable" with "un-Christian," how can that be a slam against Christians?