Schwarzenegger says it's simple: You figure out how much money you have, and then you decide how to divide it among education, health and welfare, and other programs funded by the state.
Núñez takes the opposite view: You figure out what you need to spend to maintain a responsible budget, and then you decide where to get the money for the programs.
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I spent 30 years in credit reporting, collections, debt couseling, consumer advocacy, every aspect of balancing a budget and running businesses. ANY time you spend money you don't have, it's a perscription for economic disaster.
I used to be a credit manger for a large tire company. One of the owners (who I was hired to try to change!) liked to sell to big commercial buddies who had TERRIBLE credit and that I wouldn't approve. He would look you square in the eye and tell you that it was the sale that mattered, not if you ever got paid, it was all about "volume'. And if they didn't pay, that was MY problem. He honestly believed it, too. Just like Nunez probably believes it because some fool taught him that in some California University.
BTW, the partner was gone in a year. I stayed for another 4.
Good story!
Eventually somebody has to collect, even for the liberal. What hasn't happened here for too long has been adequate spending restraint. If the budget's fate will be determined by either a Mexican lawmaker or an Austrian body-building govenator, I'm taking the govenator.