So will the federal dollars start flowing into CA if Arnold gets elected?

[TNDemo]

Will they suddenly clean up the deficit and make the Republicans look like they know how to balance a budget?

[MisterP]

1. you nailed it

[wtmusic]

2. Don't know how they could pull that one off

* is in enough trouble over the fed deficit. Arnold claims he can get rid of ours by cutting programs (maybe over a 200-year time frame...)

[AP]

3. Well, after listening to The Pinochet File author today on Fresh Air,

that would seem to be how the right wing runs these things.


He called it the spigot of aid an inevestment which they turned off when Allende got elected (well, they didn't turn off the military aid to the army so that Pinochet would have everything he needed for a proper coup), and when Pinochet took over, the US turned the spigot back on. At one point, he said, 80% of all the food aid to South America went to Chile.

(note to wtmusic, that was in '73, during a recession -- they found the money to support Chile, they'll find the money to make Arnold and the REpublican party look like saviors. Perhaps you don't remember, but a few weeks ago the Republicans in congress eliminated the debt ceiling laws.)

[wtmusic]

6. Arnold still has a long way to go

to even get to the Governor's office (he has to win two elections--one for recall, one for him) and even after that IMO there isn't enough money in the fed budget to turn CA red in '04.

[marshmellow]

4. Big job growth a comin.

California will be the recipient of thousands of new jobs associated with military spending. They want to give credit to a republican.

[Bandit]

5. Red Ink Republicans know how to balance the Budget???? LOL

ROTFLMAO What money could the Feds send to California? Do the words Five hundred billion dollar deficit sound familiar?

[ferg]

7. so make it $600 billion and pay off California's debt

It's not as if the Republicans care about the federal deficit.

That's exactly what the Republicans would do. You're rewarded if you vote Republicans, and punished (enercy "crisis") if you vote against Republicans.

[AP]

8. Did Congress vote to RAISE debt ceiling or REMOVE it this past summer?

I can't remember.

[John_H]

9. There are no federal dollars

that's why all the states are going broke.

[David__77]

10. that wouldn't matter...

CA is "culturally leftist" and moving more and more in that direction. It would be a monumental waste for the GOP to seriously invest efforts in this state. They would disappear into a vortex like Bush's $10,000,000 on 2000. This is bluster. Sure, they're trying to be opportunist here, but I wouldn't make the leap that they're preparing such a scenario as this. Regardless, GOP borrow and spend policies will ultimately lead to ruin--the shell game cannot last forever.