Bravo, Arnie.  Bravo.

Way to sell out the entire state in a desperate bid to cover up your own massive financial bungling.

Apparently Governor Blackforest (literal translation, as it turns out!) wants to spend an as yet undisclosed sum the state doesn’t have in a bid to retrofit five hundred cameras in California designed to snap photos of red light runners to also snap photos of speeders.  The lion’s share–eighty five percent–of the geetus would flow directly into profoundly desperate state coffers.

Lest you think this a bad investment, think again–state budget offices figure that this move would raise a whopping THREE HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS for the state.

While I’ll freely admit when asked that the ROI is probably massive, I can’t help but be horrified.  California’s already pulled some downright cartoon supervillain-esque stunts to raise cash–delayed state tax refunds, rejiggered withholding rates without anyone’s approval or consent–but a massive Big Brother program?

Dammit, Arnie, you’re better than this!  You FOUGHT Skynet not five years ago!  Stop trying to INSTALL it!

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