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Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. "We're all Keynesians now," declared President Richard M. Nixon when he surrendered his fiscal policies to liberal orthodoxy. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did much the same with his recent executive order calling for draconian cuts in the emission of "greenhouse gases" linked to global warming. "The debate is over," he claimed. The issue of global warming, though presented as a matter of scientific certainty, is actually highly controverted. Although the planet almost certainly is warming, how much of that is due to humanity -- which contributes only about .3 percent of...

<p>Cut, cut, cut. That should be the message from Californians to the state Legislature on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's package, released Tuesday, of almost $3.8 billion in proposed cuts in the 2003-04 budget year, which ends June 30, and the following budget year.</p>

Arnie accused of terminating help for poor By Oliver Poole in Los Angeles (Filed: 26/11/2003) Arnold Schwarzenegger, who promised that his governorship of California would be marked by "action, action, action", proposed almost $2 billion (£1.25 bn) in budget cuts yesterday. Health care and education were among the areas worst hit. The cuts were outlined by his new finance director Donna Arduin, who has swiftly been nicknamed "Axe Arduin" in the state capital, Sacramento. She already had a reputation for slashing spending in other states and described the waste and California's budget deficit as "breath-taking" when she reviewed state finances....