The Govenator Visits Yahoo!

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke at Yahoo today. It was good to see the Governator on the day he signed California’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year. It was the quickest signing of a state budget it 5 years I might add. Go figure.

Schwarzenegger’s speech last about 45 minutes long, ranging from his accomplishments as Governor, some of the things he would like to see passed into California law, and some of his headaches as the state’s top dog.

I think his position on clamping down on state employee pensions is dead on. If you pay attention to all those protestors, it amounts to three groups of whiners:

- nurses
- firefighters
- teachers

Three noble professions, but three special interests (yes, these are special interests), that are only interested in taking while everyone else in the state chips in to clean up Grey Davis and the state assembly’s mess. Seems to me that nurses, firefighters and teachers all have a hell of a lot of time on their hands. I get to seem my kids one, maybe two hours a day during the week, but these people have time to bitch and moan in front of every television camera within 250 miles of the state.


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His drive to make California school teachers accountable for the educations that they foster on our children is also something I support. Where else on the planet can you earn tenure after two years on the job? But yet, California ranks near the bottom of all state’s in the quality of education our children receive. This a sticky subject for me, because my sister is a school teacher, but she’s the first person to stand up for accountability in our schools.

Ask not what California can do for you, but what you can do for California.