On the heels of California voters rejecting higher taxes, more debt, more dysfunction, and false reforms, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislative leaders are sitting down all this week to consider what to do now.

California voters’ “no new taxes” message at the ballot box was heard loud and clear. But Schwarzenegger and especially the Democrat legislators need to hear from you again, this time to persuade them to eliminate a mountain of waste and dysfunction, instead of borrowing and caving to pressure from the union bosses who got them elected in the first place.

It’s urgent you tell them that instead of releasing criminals into communities, instead of raiding local government funds, and instead of borrowing billions from the Obama Administration (which would place all Americans into more debt), you want them to eliminate tens of billions of dollars of disgusting government waste each and every year starting right now.

TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION: Call and email Governor Schwarzenegger and your California state legislators.

It’s important that you act now to tell them what to do. All this week, Schwarzenegger and the others, making up “The Big Five,” are meeting to decide a right, wrong or muddled direction.

Meanwhile, a Democrat-dominated committee is meeting to come up with their own “solutions.” Unless they receive a flood of challenge and direction from you and your friends, California’s foolish government may try to get billions in loans from President Obama. This will only make the spending and borrowing problem worse!

Also, you might have noticed that the morning after the election, the California Citizens Compensation Committee, which sets salaries for state officers and state legislators, voted to cut the average legislator pay from $116,208 to $95,291. This was good public relations for the Schwarzenegger-stacked committee, but nothing to get excited about.

California families need much more than this. The legislator pay cut won’t take place until December 2010. And the overall savings will be less than $3 million, a drop in the bucket compared to the $21.3 billion deficit hole that our tax-and-spend Legislature has dug for the fiscal year starting next month.

Obviously, the way to get out of debt and even grow a healthy surplus is to eliminate tens of billions of dollars per year in government waste. SaveCalifornia.com has sent our 10 recommendations to the Governor and every state legislator.

Your calls and emails will help them take notice. Please take action right now.