The problem when you allow politicians to be continually re-elected is that sometime in their political life they run out of ideas. This is not their fault. The Chinese believe that we are born with a certain amount of breaths. So why run and use them up too fast? It is probably the same with ideas. We are all born with only so many good ones.

I guess someone, somewhere, spent a bunch of money that they didn’t have. Now California is in trouble. The Governor wants to save California, but what to do? Since the politicians are out of ideas, the best thing is to dig up an old one. The Governor is proposing the old "nickel a drink tax" on wine.

But why stop there? Just as prestigious to California and in as much trouble is the movie industry. Why not charge a nickel a movie ticket? And why not a nickel a candy bar? If you do the math it is the equivalent amount of money you will pay on a bottle of "Two Buck Chuck" (with 1 bottle = 4 to 5 drinks).

I suppose a tax on bread, milk and cake is too much. It seems a little pre-guillotine France to me. But, why don’t we put a nickel tax on these other highly respected great American products as well? I am talking about all ice cream, colas, hamburgers, hot dogs, and all blues, jazz and rock n' roll CDs. It is only a nickel.

Why don’t we just collect our nickels from our change weekly and send them directly to Arnold? We can even pull them out of our kids' piggy banks and send them to Arnold. If we overspent, weren’t we robbing from our kids anyway? Maybe, if Arnold has to count those nickels he will realize just how precious they are.