He has prided himself on thinking big, and used his larger-than-life persona to advocate grand visions for California's future.The struggles of statism.
But as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger begins his fifth year at the helm of the state, he is hemmed in by the past, staring at a fiscal crisis much like the one he was elected to solve. That leaves little room for the "fantastic" ideas on which he has staked his reputation as a visionary.
Instead, political observers said, he will be forced to confront a basic and perennial question: whether California voters are willing to pay for the programs they want.
On Tuesday, Schwarzenegger, a Republican who in the last two years has been closer to Democrats
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Schwarzenegger's 'fantastic' ideas joust with state's fiscal reality
The L.A. Times reports:
