Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Will The Real Governor Of California Please Stand Up!

Am I the only one who cringes when my friends and fellow democrats fall over themselves to praise Ahhnold Schwarzenegger as a democratic hope for the future? I've heard people say that Ahhnold is, after all, married to a Kennedy and that "all those liberal hollywood types" are really quite smitten with this body-building actor (and a poor actor at that) . Recently, Ahhnold is trying to fix the woeful economic situation in California by attacking working people, public employees, and of course the teachers' union. He is taking up the standard mantra that republicans have used many times before by calling working people "Special Interest Groups". Most frightening is his desire to change the public employees' pension system by making it "less expensive". It seems to me that the Governor is attemping to "terminate" working people's retirement money and refuses to ask his rich hollywood friends to dip into their own pockets and contribute. He also wants to extend to 10 years the period of probation before a teacher is granted tenure.
I really fear the possibility of someone proposing legislation to allow naturalized citizens the right to seek the presidency. If that happens, we may in our lifetimes, see this body-building, cigar smoking, groper, President of the United States! What do you think?

1 comment:

Purple Haze said...

What's the world coming to?! The Gu-vuh-nator is no friend to Democrats. Sure he's married to a Kennedy, but HE is making some horrible decisions--God help us all if he is able to change the constitution to allow non born in the US of A "naturalized Americans" to run for President; that indeed will be "G2-JUDGEMENT DAY!"