Maybe We Made a Mistake

If you look at the polls, Arnold's popularity ratings are at an all-time low, most likely due to the avalanche of Arnold-bashing ads that are critical of the ballot measures he has introduced. The enemies of Propositions 75 and 76 are particularly vicious, trying to lift him up to join the ranks of the most hated people in history who are known by one name: Hitler, Saddam, now Arnold. Oh, I forgot Satan.

Now as I recall (no pun intended?), the reason we got rid of our former governor Gray "Gumby" Davis, was because of the mess he made out of our state, particularly the budget. Supposedly we voted in Arnold by a wide margin so he could clean up the mess.

Well, that's what he's been trying to do and because of his efforts now he is labeled a big meany and power monger by the sponsors of the anti-Prop 75 and anti-Pro 76 measures (i.e., the unions).

How do you think we got to be in the fiscal mess we are now? Because all the unions and special-interest groups had their way with Gumby, that's why. He let them ride the gravy train for the years he was in office, piling and piling up the debt and spending like there was no tomorrow. Of course those who were and are on the receiving side of these funds weren't complaining -why should they want to move from Easy Street? Gee, could it be those same beneficiaries of Gumby's lax fiscal spend-more-than-you-take-in policy who are now sponsoring the hate Arnold ads?

You know, Arnold makes perfect sense when he says you shouldn't spend more money than you have. The propositions he is supporting are designed to enable him to keep the campaign promises he made, namely to get our state back into fiscal order. To do this, we have to control the groups who are most responsible for putting it out of whack - the ones who enjoyed the Gumby Gravy Train for so long, the ones who had their way with him and put us deep in the red.

Did anyone really think that it was going to be an easy task? Did they think just because Arnold makes it look easy in his movies, that he accomplishes the impossible on film, that he would work a miracle in office? I bet some people did, and that shows just how moronic our state is. It took a while to get us into this mess and it will take a while, plus some hard measures, to get us out of it. And there won't be any miracles. The only miracle would be if unions suddenly turned honest and unselish, but that's way too much to ask.

Did people vote for Arnold just because he is a movie star? They wanted a glamour guy for the governor? Now that he is actually trying to fix things and it means having to make sacrifices, people are disenchanted. You know, if we turn down the ballot measures that Arnold has proposed, then we might as well have saved us the expense of a recall election and left Gumby in office.

We voted for Arnold because (1) we realized Gumby was not doing his job and (2) we were in a fiscal mess and it needed to be fixed. So now I say let the man do his job. There is no easy way out of this and we all need to cut back. Don't listen to the greedy unions who sponsor the anti-prop ads on tv making it look like our governor hates education and hates public safety. Instead, go to the State of California website and read the measures yourself. Then decide. But don't take the word of these thugs, the selfish unions who want to keep riding their gravy train and keep riding California further down the deficit trail. Read for yourself, compare what you read to the ads, and then see who the real villians are.