Schwarzenegger Just Acts Like He Cares for the Poor

[Manix]

LA Times
By Robert Scheer


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We should have known from his movie roles that California's new governor would be nothing more than a blowhard bully boy. Lacking the guts to take on the entrenched special interests, as he promised when he played the heavily scripted role of outsider candidate, he now proposes to do what all cowardly politicians do: balance the budget on the backs of the poor.

A Los Angeles Times headline Saturday said it all: "Budget Ax Will Fall Heavily on the Poor, Ill." The story on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget plan explained how it "promises higher costs and hurdles for thousands of Californians, from some children with cancer who will no longer get state help paying for chemotherapy to high school graduates who will be shunted to community colleges instead of universities."

Those kinds of cuts, including reneging on an already-approved cost-of-living increase for mothers and children on welfare, are not only hardhearted, but they won't save enough to dent the state's $14-billion revenue shortfall for the 2004-05 budget. They are window dressing to give the governor the cover of making what he termed "painful" spending cuts while selling his $15-billion bond initiative — which is a way of raising taxes without appearing to do so. Another scam involves the $1.3 billion in property tax revenue Schwarzenegger proposes to steal from cash-strapped local governments and school districts — you know, the people who bring you police, firefighters, street repairs, schools, parks and all that other frivolous stuff.


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[meti57b]

1. Excellent article on this disgusting creep!

It brings to mind that at the beginning of his campaign, arnie blathered on about how he teaches his kids responsibility that they cannot spend money they don't have and the State should have the same sense of responsibility, or some such. Now, he apparently teaches them that if they don't have money, then just rip some off those who are least able to defend themselves and who have the least.

[Snappy]

2. Ahnold a Nazi?

Got your attention. :)

"We should have known from his movie roles that California's new governor would be nothing more than a blowhard bully boy. Lacking the guts to take on the entrenched special interests, as he promised when he played the heavily scripted role of outsider candidate, he now proposes to do what all cowardly politicians do: balance the budget on the backs of the poor."

I live in San Francisco Bay Area and I DID know.