Recall good or bad?

    By now you know that Arnold Schwarzenegger is our new governor of California.  I voted for him, but I also voted no on the recall.  I have no love for Gray Davis, but hey we did vote him back into office about a year ago.   Mind you that is after the energy crisis and the dot com/technology crash which led to the current deficit.  Voters had the chance to vote his ass out last year but we didn't.  I voted to get his ass out.  I  have friends that have college degrees who lost their jobs during the crash.  I say that College Degree part to basically tell you that it's just not a bunch of union dock workers or non educated people who have lost their jobs.

    I keep hearing this common tune from the recallers saying that Gray Davis lied about our deficit.  First off every polictiacian lies, it's just a matter of being caught and how bad the press makes it out.  Nixon stepped down.  Bill Cliton was impeached for lying under oath. Geroge Bush Jr. went to the UN, Congress and the Nation about Iraqs weapons of mass destruction(which they still haven't found) and implied that Iraq and Akida were somehow connected to 9/11(still no solid proof on that)  We're in a war costing the American people $78,477,542,531 (http://costofwar.com/)  Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that a little bit more then California's deficit?  So Gray lied, but so has George Bush why isn't he being impeached?  Because what's going on is not against the law that's why.  What type of Goverment do we have if every time a canidate wins an election the other side starts a recalling process. Am I just supposed to assume that the people who voted for the winning canidate were all wrong.  Because the other side didn't win the voters votes didn't count or somehow are invaild.  Because that's the message that is being sent when a recall happens a year after an election. 

    Living in the Silicon Valley you don't need to be a matamatican to know that almost every single commercial building was being used by some sort of dot com bussines in the 1999-2001 years.  Bussiness that were providing money to the state in the way of taxes.  So when the dot com/technology crash happend those bussiness went under.  All you had to do was drive pass these parking lots like I did on any weekday and notice that they were becoming more and more empty.  So it's pretty easy to see that the money was not going to be there for the following year in taxes.  The state was spending at the 1999-2001 levels with project and policies underway.  Of course it was going to crash, but what could Gray Davis and the state really do?  If your working 40 hours a week and then find yourself out of work, you may cut back in the way you spend but you still have bills that need to be paid.  You have made yourself a cetain lifestlye because of the money you earned and now have none.  If you can't get another job paying the same pay then cutbacks are in order and you will do whatever it takes to supplement your income.