Schwarzenegger feels depressed because he isn’t young

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be enjoying his lifestyle since leaving office in January. He’s been traveling, and meeting with his old pals in Hollywood and even became a superhero in a new comic book series called “The Governator”.

However, Schwarzenegger has been down as of late, because he feels that he isn’t young anymore. He tells Newsweek that he feels “so shitty when he looks in the mirror.”

As he should.

This former has-been actor left the State of California in a massive economic crisis and did nothing to work with the State Legislature on addressing huge problems, things like illegal aliens flooding the State every year, which tax payers have to pay billions for, or the outrageous pension funds to State employee unions, that again, tax payers can’t afford any longer. As a result, thanks to both Schwarzenegger, his predecessor Gray Davis and our idiots in the State Assembly and Senate, California continues to struggle with a $26 billion budget deficit, more than $200 billion in long term liabilities and state unemployment at about 12%.

Furthermore, CBS last week caught up with Schwarzenegger while he was in Hollywood and was asked once again, about his decision for reducing the prison sentence of Esteban Nunez, the son of former State Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, for the murder of college student Luis Santos. This was a decision that Schwarzenegger made in his last days in office. His flat out arrogance and ignorance to refuse to offer any explanation was beyond incredible, simply giving CBS the “snore sound”.

Now, all the while, Schwarzenegger runs around the world somehow feeling proud and relaxed about his so-called accomplishments while he was in office, but more importantly, he’s depressed because he isn’t young anymore.

The truth of the matter is he simply accomplished nothing during his reign in California and his decision to reduce Nunez’s prison term was obviously political motivated.

Maybe one of these days that decision will really start to haunt him, instead of whining over his disappearing good looks. This way, the next time he looks into the mirror, he can take a closer look at himself and realize that what he is looking at is a horrible, disgusting and despicable example of humanity.

Schwarzenegger issues letter on reducing Nunez prison term

It must be very tough to loose a family member, especially if that family member is your child. But it must be even more tougher, when your child is murdered by the son of a former California State Assembly Speaker and then to later discover that the Governor himself, decides to commute the prison term of that murderer, just because of politics and power. That's the case here, as discussed in one of last week's blogs. 

Literally just hours before his term expired last week, now-former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reduced the prison term of Estaban Nunez for the murder of Luis Santos, a student at the University of California San Diego. Nunez is the son of former California Assembly Speaker, Fabian Nunez. 

Well after all of this generated a great deal of controversy and anger from the Santos family, Governor Schwarzenegger finally decided to issue an apology letter to the victim's family. In his apology letter to the father of Luis Santos, Mr. Schwarzenegger, trying to literally BS his way around the fact that this is all about politics, stated that "I understand why you may never comprehend or agree with my decision."

While it is totally understandable to issue an apology after a week of dodging questions, Mr. Schwarzenegger was reluctant to even answer any questions about why he chose Esteban Nunez, over the thousands of prisoners in the State of California that could have received a reduction in their prison sentence for lesser crimes, nor any elaboration on the fact that he just so happened to be the former Speaker's son.

Its a complete disgrace.

While a family continues to grieve due to the loss of this young man who was murdered for no apparent reason, Schwarzenegger just added more hurt and fuel to an already burning fire, and instead of just coming forward at the very beginning to make his decision, Schwarzenegger hid out like a little child for over a week before finally deciding to send a letter to the family about his decision, but still refused to answer any explanation about why Nunez was chosen out of thousands of prisoners.

What a despicable and disgusting person Schwarzenegger is....

And its worth repeating, he is a despicable and disgusting person.

Ignorance in California Part 3: Governor Brown's plan

Sometimes I think the people in California are honestly re-enacting the movie The Producers. The things that go on in this State are unintentionally hilarious. Or maybe to Governor Brown, they are intentionally hilarious.

Who the hell knows?

Governor Brown has a so-called new plan to solve California's $25 billion deficit crisis. His plan is to ask tax payers to "dig deeper" into their wallets to solve its escalating financial problems. First of all, I need to apologize to any reader of this commentary blog, because I said about a month ago that Governor Brown would propose something like this sometime in his first year as Governor. Well, I had no idea he would do it just days after he was sworn in.

His grim plan includes slashing the state's welfare program, health care to the poor, about a $1 billion cut from both the University of California and California State University institutions and eliminating home health services to elderly citizens.

You may recall during the election, that Governor Brown vowed to only raise taxes if tax payers approved it. So come this June, Governor Brown will be asking tax payers to most likely vote on a measure that would approve these cuts and raise taxes.

Now I had thought that Governor Brown said last month "We've been living in fantasy land..." 

I guess he too is living in fantasy land because he seems to forget that just last year, Governor Schwarzenegger had a special election to raise taxes and cut pretty much the same programs. The measure was defeated overwhelmingly by most of California.

Does Governor Brown honestly believe that this will be any different?

Well it might, if you consider that the same ignorant voters in this State that chose to elect him as Governor, will probably continue to be ignorant and go with the flow. Why? Because he is a Democrat.

I'd really like to see the look on every voter's face if and when there is an election and the measure is passed, taxes raised and programs cut. Then you're going to hear all of this whining and complaining from people who can't figure out why they're taxes are so high or why they cannot apply for welfare programs.

Give me a break.

Republicans State lawmakers are vowing against this citing that people cannot afford any higher taxes. Seems quite obvious that Governor Brown is already failing to address the two critical issues that have destroyed this State for many years: The cost of illegal immigration and pension funds and salaries to state employees.

But probably the most hilarious comment that came after Governor Brown announced his plan was from Democratic Senate President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg, who is quoted as saying in the Los Angeles Times: "I hate the cuts, but I'm not going to reject the cuts."

This is the same Senator Steinberg that opposed Governor Schwarzenegger's similar budget reductions last year, yet all of a sudden, he is now for them?

Schwarzenegger reduces prison term for Calif. Speaker's son

With his horrible reign of destruction in California already over, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made one last ditch effort before he left office to make himself look even more ridiculous than he already was, by reducing a prison sentence for Estaban Nunez, the son of former disgraced Speaker of the California State Assembly, Fabian Nunez.

Estaban Nunez had been given a sixteen year prison sentence for fatally stabbing a student at California State University San Diego fraternity party, and Governor Schwarzenegger decided that a sentence like that was too harsh, so he'll only get a seven year sentence instead.

Simply unbelievable.

But maybe outgoing Governor Schwarzenegger is reducing his prison sentence simply to reduce tax payer money for incarcerating prisoners in the State, which already cost an arm and a leg? Your guess is as good as mine that this is just another game of politics. The former Speaker of the Assembly comes begging to Schwarzenegger to please reduce his criminal son's incarceration and maybe offer some forgiveness as well, which under Fabian Nunez's tenure as Speaker, the State continued to spend money rapidly and the blame of course is also put on Schwarzenegger.

Speaker Nunez, by the way, was also investigated for apparently misusing tax payer money on a lavish trip to Europe many years ago. He was never formally convicted as he should have been, and now his son gets a partial pardon, because of political connections.

Its disgusting, just disgusting.

California's budget crisis much worse... says Jerry Brown

Don't you love it when you run for public office and you campaign on "reforms" and manipulate everyone into thinking that's what you're going to do...? Well, Arnold Schwarzenegger did, and nothing was reformed...

What about re-running for the public office that you held some twenty five years before, and campaign on "living within our means"... well Jerry Brown did, and it looks like "living within our means" might become "live in total poverty" soon enough.

It turns out that California Governor-elect Jerry Brown came clean yesterday, adding: "We've been living in fantasy land, it is much worse than I thought. I'm shocked..."

Oh my, I'm so shocked too!


But don't worry Governor Brown, the California Legislative Analyst Office said that the State will not go bankrupt and the Government will not collapse.

Yeah right.

You would think that something like this would at least force people to wake up to the grim reality that California is in. In a more common comparison, California's deepening financial crisis is of the magnitude that Greece is currently going through.

Last year, Governor Schwarzenegger and the State Legislature made significant cutbacks to State programs, yet, it still faced a $20 billion budget gap, which in turn just last month, actually amounted to $25 billion because the Legislature under estimated some of those cuts. Of course that does not include the $200 billion California has in loans and other debts.

Business Insider had an interesting look at some of the other ridiculous spending in Sacramento that has gone on over the last several years:

- In the past 23 years, California has established 23 prisons (one per year) each costing roughly $100 million a year to operate; yet it only established one University, being UC Merced.

- To prove that we spend more money on illegal aliens, than we spend on improving our educational system, 23,000 teachers received pink slips in the last year, yet we spend $859 million a year on imprisoning illegal aliens.

- Seven of the most unemployed cities in the United States, are right in California.

- $500 million is spent each year on fire control

The situation is incredible. Now California is already having to rely on the Federal Government for some kind of bailout. Last month, Sacramento announced it would receive $40 million a day from Washington just to cover its unemployment benefits. 

Already, Governor Brown says California's deficit could rise to $28 billion over the next year and a half, and face $20 billion in State deficits through fiscal year 2015-2016. He and the State Treasurer are looking into cutting spending by 25% across the board, and even potential problems in California raising over $3 billion in costs associated to meet the mandates in President Obama's Health Care Bill. At the same time, he is exploring the option of raising taxes into his first year, which is the last thing he should even think about. That would rise the unemployment levels in California and perhaps force people into the brink of poverty. 

It is clear that the California State Legislature is the problem. They bow down to the unions and want spending for all their radical programs and other things that this State simply cannot afford any more. I'm sure that nearly 95% of them probably don't even read any of the bills they implement in Sacramento, and of course, they're supposed to be the ones that approve the budget each year, and probably that same 95% don't even have a clear conscious as to what they're doing.

The central spending problem in California is obvious: The cost of illegal immigration and funding to pension plans and benefits. Reform those two issues, and California's crisis can be reduced.

Whether or not Jerry Brown will actually see the writing on the wall and realize that this has to stop, is still unclear.

California is going to get ugly real fast… Part II

As many people already know, California has been experiencing severe financial problems for several years, and they continue to escalate. In the past year, California has struggled to find ways to solve the $20 billion deficit.

Now there is more grim news on the horizon. Seven days after the election in which the same ignorant voters in this State decided to re-elect the same morons responsible for destroying the economy of California and choosing not to vote for the propositions which may have helped prevent further damage financially, the California Legislative Analyst Office (LAO), announced that there will most likely be another $19 billion gap between revenues and spending in the State in the coming fiscal year.

Based on their non-partisan analysis, the LAO indicates that $6 billion will result in a shortfall in the $86 billion general fund spending plan that was signed by Governor Schwarzenegger on October 8^th. So what was already a $20 billion budget deficit has actually grown to the tune of $25.4 billion. In addition, $400 million in Medi-Cal savings is more than likely not going to happen because the California Legislature took too long to implement the plan and the savings ended up being too high than what was projected.

I’m sure incoming/returning Governor Jerry Brown is going to love to have to deal with this crisis when he takes the helm in January.

Mac Taylor, a legislative analyst with the LAO, says that California will most likely have to face budgets problems of $20 billion each year from now, all the way through fiscal year, 2015-16.

Incredibly, the LAO report believes that California “will not go bankrupt, and that debt payments will not go into default and the State government is not on the verge of collapse.”

Where have these clowns been in the course of the last several years? Do they (the Legislature and the LAO) not fully comprehend the seriousness of this matter? Do they not realize that there needs to be emergency cuts to severe problems in California like government worker programs, union and pension fund plans and the cost of illegal immigration, which are all major factors to California’s financial woes?

The officials in the California State Legislature have been beyond reckless with policies on spending, completely lazy when it comes to focusing on solutions, and it has gone far beyond the point to where the entire State has been unable to remain as a place to carry out its business, as they continue to leave in droves, and now, the State is having to borrow $40 million a day in payments, just to cover its 12.4% unemployment.

But this joke of a LAO report sincerely believes that everything is going to be fine, we’re not going to become bankrupt, despite the fact that the deficit has grown to $6 billion because the solutions to try and close those gaps will simply not pan out.

The truth of the matter is that Governor Schwarzenegger and the Democratic Controlled State Legislature has had ample opportunities over the last several years to enact measures and address the State’s problems to help cut spending, and save tax payer money. They all vowed not to do so, and continued to support the programs that have since destroyed the State, and then they all stand around and wonder why the State is suffering horribly. It is hypocritical, and it is disgusting.

Once Governor Brown takes over in January and the new Assembly resumes, it will probably be the same business as usual. Ignore all the real problems and threats to California and come to the tax payers to bail out the problems that will be forthcoming. One of the problems in this State are the ignorant hypocritical voters that always whine and complain about how serious the situation really is here in California, but yet they continue to vote for the same idiots that have committed themselves to destroy it. Incredible and insane!

California should be added to the Guinness Book of World Records for having the largest population of hypocrites!

It is going to get real ugly here in California

As a lifelong resident of California and despite that I am only 24 years old, I've seen California go through tough times. Maybe this sounds too premature to say someone my age and in my generation see California crumble year after year after year.

But the evidence speaks for itself:

We've had some of the worst Governors in both parties. Pete Wilson, a Republican, deregulated electricity. Then, after he left office, we get Democratic Governor Gray Davis, who threw California into a deficit crisis and we had rolling blackouts. The voters of California revolted in 2003, and threw Davis out as Governor. So then, we get this has-been famous actor, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger who vowed to stop State spending and cut taxes.

What in the hell happened?

Schwarzenegger did absolutely nothing. He campaigned as the new 'Reform' Governor, and all of his reforms have proven to be total failures. He did not cut taxes, he raised them. In February, 2009, he joined Democrat Karen Bass, the Speaker of the State Assembly, Republican State Senator Dave Cogdill, Republican State Assemblyman Mike Villines and Democratic State Senator /President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg all came together in what they called a "bi-partisan compromise" to help close a portion of California's $42 billion shortfall.

How did they do this? Well amid the fact that entire State, being the seventh largest in the world's economy was pretty much (and continues) to tedder on the verge of bankruptcy, they all elected to raise everyone's taxes, after they pledged in 2006, that they would NEVER do such a thing to the people of California.

Instead of Governor Schwarzenegger asking the Democratic controlled Assembly to reform pension funds to the unions, and maybe do something about the illegal immigration crisis in California which in 2005 alone, the State spent nearly $12.5 billion in the costs of illegal immigration; they all decided to raise everyone's taxes. As a result, those four State representatives, two Democrats and two Republicans were awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile and Courage Award by Caroline Kennedy earlier this year. It's disgraceful.

Some of the other elected State representatives we've had in recent years have demonstrated that they are also a complete, utter embarassment. In addition to the traitors mentioned above, why don't we all have a flashback for a moment for some of the other corrupt politicans in California:

- Fabian Nunez (former Democratic State Assemblyman, former Speaker of the State Assembly): In October, 2007, the Los Angeles Times reported that Nunez spent tens of thousands of dollars of our tax payer money for his own personal use including vacations, luxurious meals and entertainment. Despite an investigation, he was not convicted. Well, what a surprise.

- Anthony Adams (former Republican State Assemblyman): He also took a tax pledge, vowing to never increase anyone's taxes in his district, but did it anyway. The people in his district started the recall paperwork, but failed.

- Michael Duvall (former Republican State Assemblyman): He was caught on tape in July, 2009 to admitting he had affairs with two women and even went into details about the sex with both of them. He resigned in disgrace.

- Roy Ashburn (Republican State Senator): He represents my district in Kern County, and I actually know Roy Ashburn very well and was a political friend of my family. Well, despite the fact that he was married and has two daughters, people always accused Senator Ashburn of being gay. After campaigning against the Same-Sex marraige proposition in 2008, Ashburn was arrested in March of 2010 for driving drunk after he left a gay-night club in Sacramento. After making bail, he admitted that he was indeed, gay. He should resign.

- Pat Wiggins (Democratic State Senator): She is apparently not fitted to continue to serve as State Senator in California any longer, and did not seek re-election this year. At least on two different occasions in the couple of years, Wiggins has had behavioral outbursts on the Senate floor, at one point scolding an aide and yelling obscenities at people testifying before the State Senate. They kept her on just to have a majority vote, despite the fact that she apparently has been diagnoised with dementia.

Those are just a few of the corrupt politicans that have been elected to serve our State in recent years, and this is what they do up there.

Since neither party is committed to helping California, the deficits continued to rise in California, it continues to suffer from a $20 billion budget gap and the unemployment rate is about 12.5%, and businesses and corporations are leaving every other week because of the unfriendly business environment and high fees. It is virtually unsustainable. One would think by now that the people in California would finally revolt and ask for something to be done, but that was simply not the case in last night's election in California.

California has already had Jerry Brown as a Governor back in 1975, and turning his tenure then, California's $6 billion surplus, was turned into a $1 billion deficit. Of course, in retrospect, that is nothing compared to what Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger have done.

Brown, who also served as State Attorney General in recent years, had been quoted as saying "we need to live within our means". What a load. The fact is very clear that now Governor-elect Brown, will favor special interest groups, the unions and all of their pension plans and most likely, do nothing about the illegal immigration crisis. The fact that Democrats won largely last night here in California, should send disturbing messages to everyone, but perhaps I'm speaking too soon. After all, a majority of Californians voted these people into office because they're all liberals, but maybe in the next year or so, they will see the writing on the wall, and see that they made a significant mistake.

Please do not get me wrong, I did not think too highly of Meg Whitman in the last month of her campaign. While I agreed with her notion of creating jobs, cutting spending and fixing education and all of the works, she did come from a business background, but unfortunately, she knows nothing about the political system in California and what the people really wanted. Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, changed her campaign several times, and embarassingly contradicted herself when it came to the issue of illegal immigration, for example, at one point saying she was "tough as nails on illegal immigration... to end sanctuary cities like San Francisco...", then deciding to set up bill board ads in Spanish saying she supported immigration reform in an attempt to garner more Hispanic voters... and that took votes away from her.

Additionally, Barbara Boxer retained her U.S. Senate seat, even though it would have only taken a few more votes to get her the hell out of office; and we have this sanctuary city supporter/mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom to become Lieutenant Governor. Is he going to favor shutting out sanctuary policies in cities like the one he ran which violates federal law...? Probably not. So instead of California voters, wanting to initiate change like pension reform for State workers, solving illegal immigration, fixing education and cutting spending... instead we all decided to vote for this freak show.

Maybe I can understand slightly why Jerry Brown won the Governor's race. People were tired of Schwarzenegger. So instead, they vote for the liberal candidate. I decided to vote for neither in the end... I voted for the Libertarian candidate Dale Ogden.

Now that the election in California is over, I can honestly say that nothing is going to be done. There will be absolutely no improvement in California's political system because the people that vote in this State are obviously arrogant, favor left-leaning ideaology that has proven to be a failure, they don't get the facts correct on the issues and continue to support huge salaries and pension funds for unions and State workers.

If Jerry Brown actually has any guts, he will address those matters laid out above. Stop the immigration crisis and reform pension funds and salaries, instead of focusing on a decision to possibly repeal Proposition 13 and raise everyone's property taxes. Those two issues are critical with relation to spending as to why California has suffered for so many years. Solve those problems, and we will be on the road to financial recovery.

But I honestly cannot see it coming into fruition, because nobody wants to hear it.

Now get ready for more problems in California. Proposition 23, which challenged the Global Warming Final Solutions Act signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger, failed last night. This means more than likely, more jobs will decline, and taxes for gasoline prices will rise. Also Proposition 19 failed to legalize marijurana. Not entirely surprised, except the fact it would have put criminal drug cartels out of business and the State maybe would have generated tax revenue, although I understood the notion of wanting to keep it away from children... of course.

Nevertheless, this State is in some really hard times and it can only get worse. This State is going to get ugly real fast. They better do something soon to solve our financial problems, otherwise, California may as well just go bankrupt and maybe decide turn itself back over to Mexico.