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I've been heads down this week trying to get on top of a boatload of issues at work and wrapping up the details for the new car. Somewhere in the midst of all this, Arnold decided that last weeks setbacks on spending controls required a change of direction and floated the idea of a $50,000,000,000 bond measure in a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" kind of response.
TWC gloats (for assuming the worst) and I just don't get it.
I know we love bond measures, but this just seems sick. We've got one of the worst credit ratings in the country and the last thing we need to be do is go begging for more. Of course, we'll plan to pay for it with another few cent fees here and there and maybe we'll even bump taxes. For 30 years.
Does the legislature actually do anything anymore? It's a sad day when I'm beginning to think that moving back to New Jersey might not be a bad idea (comparatively speaking).
Posted by Dave at November 16, 2005 10:52 PMThanks for the trackback link, I appreciate it.
I always gloat, but it isn't a self-satisfied smug kind of gloat. It is a sad, stomach wrenching kind of gloat because all the while you knew it was going to turn out badly but you were really kind of holding on to some kind of irrational hope that things would somehow, just this once, go a little bit better. And you're still disappointed that they didn't, but you try not to think about it because then you get that sinking feeling in your guts...........
New Jersey looking good, eh?
Lemme tell you, we're thinking about cashing out and moving on.
Posted by: TWC on November 17, 2005 11:53 AM commLink