How about the toughest choice of all ... cutting taxes and regulations, and making California a place where people want to come and set up businesses?
The people of CA voted long ago to cut of welfare and state programs for illegals. A court objected and the state never appealed. CA will never get a grip on its financial problems with out cutting the illegals out our schools, hospitals, welfare and prisons.
We need to start enforcing immigration law and force the illegals to leave..period. The alternative is Greece..or worse.
I seem to recall Arnie campaigning on the basis that he was the man to make tough choices....
There was a time when SchwartzenKennedy was for EXACTLY that, and evangelized that to anyone who would listen, and even forced it on those that wouldn't.
If you check out - posted by another FReeper tonight - this link to watch Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" series, you'll see a young Arnold proudly giving a glowing introduction, and stating unequivocally that Socialist Europe needs to get the message of deregulation.
The fall of Schwartzenegger from Fiscal Conservative to Fiscal Joke has to be one of the saddest things I've ever seen. I always knew he was a libertine; I guess this confirms that social liberals always develop into fiscal liberals.