Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal emergency in the Not-So-Golden State.  California's outgoing governor is calling for $9.9 billion in budget cuts, mostly from programs for needy families and health care for kids from low-income families.  Schwarzenegger is a lame duck, meaning his proposals are likely to go absolutely nowhere.  Former Governor and 70s Fiasco Jerry Brown takes the state's reins in January for an encore performance.  Brown, an unreconstructed liberal and in debt to California's powerful public service and teacher shakedown unions, isn't going to suddenly declare for uncompassionate government; in other words, Governor Moonbeam Part II isn't going to push for a genuinely responsible budget and a paring down of California's hyper-government.  It ain't in Brown's DNA or political interest to do so -- no matter what he may say.          What the wishy-washy...(Read Full Post)