APRIL MUSINGS : Schwarzenegger WAS RIGHT & RFK Jr " Nader Effect".

1. Gov. Schwarzenegger WAS RIGHT [ 2009]. 

Anyway, I agree I think Arnold would have won a presidency if he were eligible. And probably would have been pretty decent. He took California far forward with ambitious plans. Nobody can accuse Arnold Schwarzenegger of not loving America and California. You had a tough job at a very tough time but you got a lot of very good things done. I wish you got more credit for it!.Enough to drive people CRAZY . Way BACK in OUR WAY BACK machine former California Gov. Schwarzenegger was trying to balance the state budget , he had a long battle with "SPECIAL INTERESTS" aka "Unions" .  But RIGHT now the California budget is a sinking ship with nearly 80 billion dollars in debt [ Newsom estimate 30 billion]  under it's current Governor Gavin Newsom . If you think back how many budget fiasco's California had since 2009 . It makes former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger RIGHT  , we should have been cutting spending . YOU EITHER LOVE HIM or HATE HIM , he was RIGHT .  I apologize to HIM. I worked at a Public School District for 30 years , back then I was on the side of the UNIONS . But now I REALIZE he was right almost 30 years ago ! California is a FUCKED up state with Gavin Newsom . Back then he said "It's very important that great things were accomplished in this budget," Schwarzenegger said. "I think that we have a historic budget reform in place. We did a $12.5bn rainy-day [fund] that we start now accumulating.""But what is wrong is to drag out the budget process for three months," he added. "And what is also wrong is to not be able to go and resolve, and solve, the most important issue, which is the structural deficit.", but I had low expectations for Arnold. In my mind he was the ultimate macho movie actor who was being cast into the role of Raagan 2.0. What we got was a relative centrist that had interest in governing first, not winning political points first. Right EVEN with this reflection , Gov. Newsom is walking a thin line on what he going to chop in the state budget . Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced today an “early action” plan to tackle part of that gap before the regular budget process later this spring.Policymakers must close the deficit by June 2024 as part of the 2024-25 budget process by taking actions that apply to all three fiscal years.Governor Gavin, Mayors Karen and London, just the whole shebang on the left are so smart that they can solve any problem. No problem is too big in their minds. Simple, if there's a looming $38B deficit, then they just need to count how many billionaires there are in California, and tax them $1b each. 38 billionaires to "pay their fair share" and it's solved. back in 2011, when Jerry Crazy Train Brown took over, the California budget was $86 billion, back when we required a 2/3 majority to pass a budget... fast forward to 2024, and Gav's budget is $300+ billion... end Prop 98, end all the bloated pensions, end the sanctuary state mentality, bring back prop 187... time is now for drastic action  Simple! Rightwingers couldn't have thought of that because all they do is wear big cowboy hats and boots while chewing a straw to talk about gun rights in a Southern twang. Yeehaw!!I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Schwarzenegger left office in January, 2011, more than 13 years ago. Democrats have been in charge since then. (Jerry Brown the 2nd followed Arnold, then Newsom took over)The mess that is the funding of California government is neither a right nor left wing political issue but is the nature of how California government is funded ..Per a recent LA Times article (California Politics: The taxes paid by 100,000 millionaires - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)), 40% of California income tax is paid by approximately 100,000 individuals with incomes over $1M/year.Responsibility falls completely on the Democratic party to make the cuts. They are always keen on creating more permanent costly programs when they have money. They need to learn to be more slower with new programs so that when the revenue decreases, the cuts won't be so drastic. A slight downturn in business, for instance, could noticeably reduce the collections from this very small part of California. Thus, the budget surplus from last year turned, very quickly, into a massive budget shortfall.The real issue, other than a more stable funding scheme, is to live within a budget. CA had a huge surplus just last year. Where did that go? IT NEVER EXISTED !!!. This is something that most persons have a problem with, especially politicians.

2. RFK Jr " Nader Effect".

Robert F Kennedy Jr recently said he will run for president as an independent. If that is so and he gets on the ballot will he take away votes from the Republican candidate or the Democratic candidate?RFK Jr. Could POSSIBLY STEAL VOTES from both Donald J Trump and Joe Biden . It's so easy for him to get elected than picking two deejay vu candidates .Though Trump is leading the polls , Biden is still going neck to neck "chances" of winning . I think there WILL BE A NOVEMBER SURPRISE ! In-store for US ALL.In a lengthy CNN interview on Erin Burnett OutFront, Kennedy was questioned about his equivocating stance on the subject. “When people talk about the threat to democracy that Trump poses, do you think that that is equal to Biden?” Burnett asked.“Listen, I can make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy and the reason for that is President Biden is… the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech so it censors his opponent,” Kennedy claimed.But the damage Kennedy can do to Biden isn’t simply electoral. Remember his argument for why Biden is perhaps a worse threat to democracy than Trump — that Biden censored his opposition, which he didn’t, whereas Trump only … tried to subvert democracy. The interview is getting more attention for Kennedy’s insisting, falsely and despicably, that President Joe Biden is a greater threat to democracy than the twice-impeached, insurrection-fomenting, promised Day One dictator Donald Trump. I’ll get to that.It’s too bad that during independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s naming of his vice-presidential running mate that no one confronted him about what he said about third party candidates during the 2000 election.That was the year RFK Jr. was all over the media giving warnings to Green Party candidate Ralph Nader about the danger inherent in such a candidacy. “Ralph Nader is my friend,” he told CNN, “but his candidacy, I think, poses a huge threat to the environment in this country, and the reason for that, of course, is he could drain off votes in certain key states that would otherwise go to Al Gore.” And, he added, this could result in the election of George W. Bush.Polling indicates that support for the black sheep of the Kennedy family is stronger than for any third party or independent candidate since Ross Perot in 1992.Anyone who believes this has-been, drugged-out loser really needs to have their head examined. His father must he turning in his grave to see all the damage his son is trying to do to everything Bobby Kennedy held dear. The Kennedy family is even against him. The only way he found that he could become relevant was to threaten Biden's re-election, and the GOP and Trump befriended him immediately. Alone and without anything to sell to the GOP, no one would have given him the time of day. Please don't let this idiot get away with his low-rent ranting and lies. His gravely drugged-damaged voice gives me the creeps. It looks like a tight race and even if he takes just a point or two away from the Biden column, it could be enough to hand the Oval Office back to Mr. Trump.