Californians are the highest taxed constituency in the United States. Our pocket books, paychecks, and cash register reciepts tell us every day that the state spending spree must stop.

Proposition 1A-1F are poised to go down in flames next week. They should be defeated because they were designed by the legislature to disguise the out-of-control California state spending. 

The voters haven't been fooled by the doomsday prophecies and we are not intimidated by the threats to release thousands of state prisoners, layoff of 50,000 school teachers, or the limiting of state firefighting efforts. 

Governor Schwarzenegger is the chief architect of these special election propositions. The governor has become what he ran against a few short years ago. And, worse yet, he has enabled the legislature to continue the states spending spree.

The Governator's tenure has been ineffective at best, and destructive to the state. Borrow and spend politics are not effective governing. Many pundits predicted that the state would not be able to service its debt obligations when the governor supported special election borrowing was voted on just a few short years ago. The governor thinks that Sacramento is a Hollywood dream machine--spend whatever it takes to make the special interests and public employees unions happy.

Leadership from the governor's office means that the state's chief executive must have the political will to make the tough decisions. California is a state with line item veto powers assigned to the governor. Yet, year after year, this governor has enabled the spending spree to continue.

Next week the state's voters will say "Enough!" It may mean that California will be forced into bankruptcy. It is a risk that must be taken. The only way the state can wrest control of the budgeting process from the special interests and public employees unions is through a court supervised budget re-organization. Yes, the state has arrived at a day of reckoning. Reclaiming California's promise means the voters must say "No" to our out-of-touch and out-of-control legislature.