What we have now is essentially a state government paying workers to work against the best interest of the state. Bottom Line: I am PAYING for correctional officers to lobby the state for MORE of my money instead of tending to the prisoners they were hired to watch.

What’s the matter with Arnold? Why has he, (and the State for that matter) waited so long for this “Debt” to accumulate?

…….and you wonder why the Great State of California is in debt!

You won’t find anything particularly subversive about me. I’m not funded by a left-wing think tank, or by anyone for that matter. I’m just an average joe who thinks there are too many right-wing blogs running around doing damage. The right-wing has succeeded in wiping the dismal record of President Bush off the map and putting the blame for our problems on President Obama. I’m damned if I want to see them do the same thing here in California.

I do not believe that government is the cause of all our problems. I do not believe that the Republican campaign to starve state government so they can “drown it in the bathtub” is the right way to go. I do believe that we need members of both parties to work TOGETHER (what a concept!) to help solve our state’s problems, not hunker down in their ideological bunkers and hurl abuse at the other side.

So when I think you’ve gone over the top in criticizing pensions, or state government, or Democrats, I’ll do my best to respond. Obviously, one guy doing this in my spare time cannot compete with three people doing this full-time for pay (by the way, you don’t indicate your funding source on your blog). But I’ll give it my best shot.

Have a nice weekend.