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Hasta la vista, Arnold

Photo courtesy state of California
Photo courtesy state of California

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been in office since Nov. 13, 2003. During his tenure as California governor, his administration has been like “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”– heavy on “the ugly.” Unfortunately for Californians, Schwarzenegger’s bad decisions in regard to policy have left California hurting.

First off, he created a laundry list of vetoed bills that would not only have helped the economy but would have also provided services that are essential to California residents.

Among the vetoed bills is Assembly Bill 476, which would have required more comprehensive testing to determine where K-11 students place in their understanding of materials in order to appropriately place them in the next grade. AB 503, another vetoed bill, would have allowed grant funding for battered women’s shelters to continue past its 2010 cutoff to 2015, according to the governor’s office.

According to the New York Post, Schwarzenegger vetoed 35.1 percent of bills before him this year and 27.5 percent of legislature from the last.

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Although important bills have become casualties of the “Governator”, he deserves some credit for signing two of the most controversial bills the state has been faced with: Senate Bill 572 which honors Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist and the first openly gay politician and SB 54, which recognized same-sex marriages until a voter-approved ban vetoed the bill.

Schwarzenegger’s administration has enacted a series of tax breaks for various industries, the most recent of which involved the movie industry in California. According to the Los Angeles Times, “Since 1993, permanent tax cuts have cost the general fund more than $100 billion. Those costs
have grown from $700 million in 1993 to $12 billion last year and $11.7 billion more this year — combined, that’s half of our current projected
deficit.”

Is it really the best move to make, while the California economy is still reeling from economic downturn, to take away potential funding through taxes? Numbers like the ones cited in the Los Angeles Times article should show that Schwarzenegger should have terminated his inexperienced hold over the California government a long time ago.

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