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What a dumbass.

This is the guy who swore to fix California's budget problems without cutting education spending or raising taxes; all this would be accomplished by finding and eliminating billions of dollars of waste. For some people, one out of three ain't bad.

Having come up short in his waste investigation, Schwarzenegger's proposed billions of dollars of new debt, which will end up costing taxpayers nearly double to pay back. Generally speaking, public debt should be taken on for investments such as schools and infrastructure, not to bridge structural gaps in the budget. This follows, of course, the lowering of California's bond rating (makes borrowing more expensive) by several credit agencies in response to the "repeal of the car tax."

Now he's declared a state of emergency so he can unilaterally cut education funding. Public universities have been hurting as it is. Tuition rates have gone up across the board, and for some people, getting an education is becoming a financial impossibility.

So let's take a look into the FutureScope (TM) and see what's coming down the pipe: hmm... a workforce that is less educated, saddled with more public debt, with access to fewer services. Lovely.

They say everything is a spiral--it's either going up or down. If that's the case, then let's get the fuck off this Voter Initiative/Prop 13 spiral and start moving back in the right direction with investments in education (K-12, universities), health care (stop saddling businesses with this expense!), and infrastructure (information, people, and freight).

Oh, and Arnold? Gesundheit!