Hope this is not a repost. This is a fairly long letter but Tom has some very good ideas for CA. I hope he runs against Boxer in 08 or for the Governors seat 2009-2010. If you support his position, here is an e-mail address to contact him.

senator.mcclintock@sen.ca.gov


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Budget Letter: The Next Step
Published on July 24, 2007


July 24, 2007

Hon. Richard Ackerman
Senate Republican Leader
State Capitol
Sacramento, California

Dear Dick:

You have asked under what circumstances I could support SB 77, the budget act for FY 2007-08. In my judgment, the largest general fund budget the state can safely sustain under current conditions is slightly over $100 billion, or $8.3 billion more than was spent just two years ago and $21.7 billion more than was spent at the outset of this administration. Here are my thoughts on the scope of the problem and on what immediate steps can be taken to address it.

SCOPE OF PROBLEM

Although the architects of the budget maintain that it is “onlyâ€