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To: Neeka who wrote (16573)	11/18/2003 4:32:11 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 793656

The rhetoric is nice, but actions speak louder than words. I hope Arnie will protect those laws despite the backlash from special interests. Our current gov't at the federal and most state levels is "all rhetoric all the time". To take any real action will require Arnie step waaay out of the mainstream. McClintock was willing to do that. Arnie so far is all talk. His signing of removal of the car tax is supported by a huge bond issue, which the GOP was against previously, and now supports. This merely pushes $27 BILLION onto future generations, once again. The tough work is cutting costs. Common sense says this should be easy, when you consider the overcharging for nearly all state activities, most of which can be cut 20%. The only thing preventing cuts are entrenched constituencies, and the inability of a leader to explain to voters what needs to be done and why, or even to take executive action and take the heat for it. The truth is that the fed gov't takes most of our money, and returns very little for it. To tell that truth requires going against the GOP machine, or, more likely, to lie. Arnie's got a golden oppty to make sweeping changes, since he's the first recall governor in the state's history. But it had better add up and not be Enron accounting like the federal gov't, or he's wasted everyone's time. GOP and Dem politicians are all we have to look at That's a false dichotomy. The party machines are corrupted too easily by a few million dollars from a happy lobbyist wanting Enron-type tax credits, for example, or Enron-type predatory deregulation. The real distinction is between predatory politicians like 90% of the GOP and 80% of the Dems, and those who actually have fiscal and policy integrity like McClintock at the state level and Feingold at the federal level.