The hard decisions should never have been left in the hands of the voters in the first place, but now that California's whacked out "budget-by-ballot-initiative" plan failed, the folks in Sacramento are planning to turn the state into a house of pain...
The day after voters overwhelmingly rejected a plank of ballot measures intended to ease the state's financial woes, lawmakers awoke to a harsh reality: a projected $21.3-billion deficit and the prospect of another round of bitter negotiations among Democrats, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and conservatives across the legislative aisle.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, Schwarzenegger said the message from voters, unpalatable as he found it, was clear.
"There's a certain point where you feel that it will be devastating to some people and so we tried not to make those cuts," said the governor, who last week outlined grim plans to cope with the deficit. "But now we have to, we have no other choice."
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