Arnold is a Girlie-Man
Despite all of his tough-guy image and macho rhetoric, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is a wimp. He makes a big show about his tough stance in taking on the state's problems, yet at the same time he continues the California gubernatorial tradition of genuflecting before the prison guard's union. I have long felt that if Arnold really wanted to fix California's budget, the prison system would be the place to begin. There is a massive hole blown in the budget by the cost of the state's extensive penal system. There is also a tremendous societal cost due to the large numbers of people in jail who shouldn't be there. Rather than making his first action a rollback of the vehicle license fee, he should have freed everyone currently in jail for possession of all drugs, or at the very least marijuana, for personal use. That would have been a true blow for personal liberty. He had a golden opportunity to restore some semblance of justice to the California penal system last year, but chose instead to campaign against the proposition to amend the three strikes law. When you hear Arnold whine that his political enemies are telling lies, remind him that he has extended the incarceration of thousands of people by telling lies of his own. A complete squandering of personal integrity to help out the prison guards.
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