SACRAMENTO – The new Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the new Democratic Assembly speaker, Fabian Núñez, have been conducting a kind of dialogue in the media about their very different views of state budgeting. 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. The conflict will heat...
