{"id":9120,"date":"2009-06-14T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-14T17:47:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T17:47:47","slug":"arnold-oki-had-another-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/14\/arnold-oki-had-another-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold: Ok…I Had Another Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when Arnold wanted to sell all the state properties? And remember how that selling the properties won’t actually help the budget mess<\/a>? Well, it turns out Arnold has noticed that his idea of, um, about a month ago was pretty dumb:<\/p>\n

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday said this is the wrong time to consider selling state assets — less than a month after he proposed doing just that.<\/p>\n

During a news conference in Escondido, the governor responded to a question about his proposal to sell the Del Mar Fairgrounds and other state properties. He announced the proposal in May as part of his revised plan to address a $24.3 billion budget deficit.<\/p>\n

He acknowledged the timing was poor. The commercial real estate market is just one part of California’s economy that has been pummeled by the recession.<\/p>\n

“And it’s also not always the best time right now, when we are in a financial crisis where people pay you much less for those properties, to go out and sell them immediately,” Schwarzenegger said. (AP 6\/14\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, basically, 4 weeks ago, you were young and immature, and, um stupid.  Thing is, that a bunch of bloggers around here, in addition to Asm. Evans, said it was a dumb idea back then.  The question is then, a) who comes up with all of these bad ideas and b) why do they make it out of the Horseshoe?<\/p>\n

What’s up with Arnold trying to make Dan Quayle look brilliant<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when Arnold wanted to sell all the state properties? And remember how that selling the properties won’t actually help the budget mess<\/a>? Well, it turns out Arnold has noticed that his idea of, um, about a month ago was pretty dumb:<\/p>\n

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday said this is the wrong time to consider selling state assets — less than a month after he proposed doing just that.<\/p>\n

During a news conference in Escondido, the governor responded to a question about his proposal to sell the Del Mar Fairgrounds and other state properties. He announced the proposal in May as part of his revised plan to address a $24.3 billion budget deficit.<\/p>\n

He acknowledged the timing was poor. The commercial real estate market is just one part of California’s economy that has been pummeled by the recession.<\/p>\n

“And it’s also not always the best time right now, when we are in a financial crisis where people pay you much less for those properties, to go out and sell them immediately,” Schwarzenegger said. (AP 6\/14\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, basically, 4 weeks ago, you were young and immature, and, um stupid.  Thing is, that a bunch of bloggers around here, in addition to Asm. Evans, said it was a dumb idea back then.  The question is then, a) who comes up with all of these bad ideas and b) why do they make it out of the Horseshoe?<\/p>\n

What’s up with Arnold trying to make Dan Quayle look brilliant<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,117],"tags":[7426],"class_list":["post-9120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","category-117","tag-7426"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2n6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}