Memo to Arnold: A Script to Save Kaleefornia, not Terminate It!

MEMO TO ARNOLD: A SCRIPT TO SAVE KALEEFORNIA, NOT TERMINATE IT

By Miriam Raftery
Editor, East County Magazine

June 3, 2009 (San Diego’s East County)—If California ever needed an action hero at the helm, it’s now. Instead, Arnold has taken the “girlie man” way out –balancing the budget on the backs of the poor by proposing to eliminate healthcare for children and welfare-to-work programs. He also wants to close 80% of state parks, release prisoners, and slash school spending.

Granted, a grid-locked Legislature, Republicans who pale at the words “raise revenues,” Democrats who were split on ballot initiatives and fed-up voters who failed to pass them have left him few easy choices. But Arnold has one ace left in the hole: Star power. Here’s how he can use it to debut the most important road show of his career: “Save Kaleefornia.”

1. Ask your friends in Hollywood—yes, those limousine liberals---to host a “Save Kaleefornia” day. Donate all proceeds from movies shown statewide to a special “Save Kaleefornia” fund.

2. Invite movie stars, TV stars and sports celebrities to donate signed memorabilia for a giant “Save Kaleefornia” celebrity auction.

3. Get Bill Gates to organize an online “Save Kaleefornia” fundraising drive—starting by kicking in a hefty donation himself.

4. Urge the 100 wealthiest people in California to pay their fair share. Publish a list of their names...

Please read my full editorial rant and post your comments here: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/?q=node/1330

Then please use the link at the bottom of the story to send this to the Governator!

If you really want to help Save Kaleefornia, forward this to a few zillion of your closest friends, too. Thanks from a lifelong Californian!

Financially it wouldn't help but it would at least save us having to listen to him anymore.

California will be fixed when Californians have the will to save it.

Nothing will change until Prop. 13 is revoked. Doesn't matter whose in the State House.

The state has been on a fiscal crash course since the late 70s and will never truly right itself until commercial property owners start paying their fair share into the coffers of municipal governments.

The high tech industry got its start in California.

And by the way, I've heard Bill Gates owns a home here, too.

It's true that Prop 13 is the root of California's funding problems. But overturning that is not going to happen overnight, if ever. My editorial is only partially tongue in cheek-in fact there's no reason the Governor couldn't think outside the box and do at least a few of these symbolic things to bring in some money right now.

I'm going to add a link for people to send this to the Governator.

Bill Gates bears absolutely ZERO responsibility for fixing the California economy.

If anything, the argument you made re: Silicon Valley, only reinforces what I said as Gates has probably done more to stimulate the California economy than any individual or industry, for that matter, in it's history, save, maybe, Hollywood.

As far as the other suggestions go, I take no issue with them. But they are band-aids and even if they were entertained and implemented, California would find itself back in the same hole soon enough, Ahnuld or no Ahnuld. Until the people of California realize that Prop. 13 needs to go, for the sake of the future of their state, nothing will change, there will always be massive deficits and the chaos created by all of the resulting finger-pointing will continue.

somebody's trying to get something done.

Why not have star studded bake sale, so to speak?

The way arnie's going about it sounds gruesome.

They'd for sure wanna help out:bounce: