Didn't He Promise

to "Balance The Budget"? It's really a fine irony (if you haven't lost your job your house your car your stake in the economy) that Gov. Schwarzenegger claimed his management skills would be up to the task of rationalizing the economy of the State of California. "Defeat is sharp rebuke to governor, Legislature". While the current Gov. is certainly more intelligent and far better informed than the last Actor-Governor, Ronald W. Reagan, he's as big a fool if he truly believed (I'm certain he has now been disabused of the notion) that he could err, Terminate the state's disfunctional legislative budget process. Unaware, apparently, that he, the "Governator", as he likes to style himself, is as much a victim of the toxic budget process as he is a shaper of it. In California today, and for many years now, All Roads Lead To Proposition 13. The iconic Prop 13 is a carefully crafted document that acts pretty much in the manner of a dull self-castrating knife. It decrees that people who own stuff can avail themselves of what was once a robust social, economic, and educational infrastructure without having to pay their share in its upkeep. And indeed today it's apparent that it hasn't been upkept. Of course, the deficit is just a part of the general economic malaise. But the budget "process", if one may call it that, is a hopeless morass. As intended by the ornery California Vogter, easily led my the nose or other appendage to vote in favor of self-destructive measures.
As I said: A Fine Irony.