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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (147087)	11/13/2008 2:50:13 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

nope california is the toughest state to run, for the same reason that it is so successful. California has a grassroots proposition system where any special interest can put a measure on the ballot and change the state consitution. That is the issue, it is a blessing and a curse. For example CA put a proposition on the ballot to build a 90 billion dollar european style Bullet Train to canvas the state. The people want things like that and can push them on the ballot. Same with mandating clean energy and cafe standards. The people want it- it goes on the ballot. Thats why the state is so forward in so many ways. The problem is paying for all this crap. The government is stuck with the bill. Its a blessing and a curse something that Palin could never handle. Arnold is doing a great job and I would support him for president if it was possible. I am sure most reading this don't understand this about CA, like the idiots in Utah who think CA is mismanaged and have no idea that this grassroots proposition system exists or what it means.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (147087)	11/13/2008 3:13:39 PM
From: geode00	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

During her term in office, Palin cut property taxes and other small taxes on business. But as the Anchorage Daily News points out, “She wasn’t doing this by shrinking government.” During her tenure, the budget of Wasilla (population 5,469 in 2000) “apart from capital projects and debt, rose from $3.9 million in fiscal 1996 to $5.8 million.” Palin also successfully pushed through a sales tax increase in Wasilla, which went to fund a $15 million sports complex. However, a land dispute over the sight of the complex led to “years of legal wrangling” and cost Wasilla almost $1.7 million, “a lot more than the roughly $125,000 the city would have paid in 1998 if it had closed a deal to buy the property outright.” Wasilla is still facing budget shortfalls from the case today. When Palin left office in 2002, Wasilla had “racked up nearly $20 million in long-term debt,” or roughly $3,000 of debt per resident. ============ Yep, FailinPalin would drown the country in nonsensical debt in a way very similar to what Dumbya has done. TAX and STEAL the Republikan mantra. We, including you, cannot afford Republicans in power any longer. McCain/Palin would have mired us in a couple of more wars and another $10 TRILLION in debt.