How Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Best Remembered

Here in California, we have had a long run of bad things happening. It started long ago, with a huge oil spill in 1969, that no one remembers because a drunk captain in Alaska had to prove that Alaska just does everything bigger.

The oil spill in California, off the coast of Santa Barbara, was the start of the modern ecology movement. It was so large that its effects were felt up and down the long coastline of the state.

It led to many changes, not the least of which was the push for President Nixon to sign the National Environmental Policy Act, perhaps the last act of kindness to the environment by someone on the right.

It appears that the Governator will now be remembered as the one who undid all the things that made life in California at least bearable, not halting environmental damage, but at least slowing it down in large measure.

Apparently, we will see oil companies drilling off the coastline of California again, and though the amount of money gained in tax revenue will be small, the damage to the environment will speed up, once again, all because the Governor wants to showboat for his party.

One would think a national campaign was in the works; wait, that cannot happen, as he is not a native born citizen.

As several have already pointed out, all the wrong things are happening in California. We are cutting aid to children, whose fault being born to poor parents was inescapable. We will not be able to educate these same children, to a degree that they will succeed in ways that will push California upward again, because there won’t be enough teachers. Too many children in each class, with not enough supplies, and an environment that says no one cared enough.

But once again, we’ll be able to say we had a real ’star’ in the governor’s seat, never mind that each time they did no one but fans of big business any good.

On the bright side, I was barely alive the first time, and voted Democrat the second time, so I know my conscience is clear.

Not many are noticing however, as the story of the lady in Alaska, once again showing that Alaska can out do anything in California, has overshadowed anything the Governator has been doing. Oh, and she can also make a run for the presidency…I’ll bet that fries his bacon just a bit.

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