Hasta la vista, baby

The definitive Arnold Schwarzenegger movie performance was his portrayal of the terminator in the film of the same name. He was a weapon of mass destruction and indestructible himself. Now he's working his magic on the state employees in California. Having been a state employee myself for much of my life, I completely understand their predicament: unappreciated when they do their jobs well, and despised by the public when they don't. Of course, in Texas they don't pay their state employees nearly as well as they do in California. If they cut every public employee in Texas back to minimum wage, it wouldn't make much of a dent in the budget deficit. But get used to things like this if the teapeople ever take control of the government.