http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/us/brown-proposes-8-3-billion-in-cuts-for-california.html?_r=2&smid=tw-share
"The fact is, California has been living beyond its means," Mr. Brown said in Sacramento before flying here for a second news conference detailing the plan. "The United States of America and its federal government has been living beyond its means. Well, there has to be a balance and a day of reckoning. This is a day of reckoning, and we have to take the medicine."
