The following blog was posted at the Flash Report by AFP California's Communications Director, Meredith Turney.

This morning I read the Governor's Weekly Address and decided that it needed a conservative response. The whole address was a "celebration" of the one-year anniversary of the federal stimulus plan. It's hardly an anniversary worth celebrating, but considering California's recent proclivity to beg the feds for more aid, I guess the influx of cash would excite government bureaucrats.

Throughout the speech the Governor praises the virtues of massive government spending, taking credit for putting "40,000 young people into summer jobs," and delivering "650,000 warm meals to seniors." Since when is the government responsible for employing young people and doing the work performed much better by private charities? Sounds a little too much like "cradle to grave" government.

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