Governor Is Willing to Bend on Budget
Schwarzenegger says of what he was told about the pain of cutbacks: 'Now I understand.'

…In a reference to the nearly $4 billion in cuts he proposed over the next 19 months ? taking money from health-care programs, higher education and the developmentally disabled ? Schwarzenegger said: "I hate making cuts. Because it hurts me?. And now I understand when past governors said to me, 'Arnold, it will be tough decisions you'll have to make that are painful. We all make them.' I understood last week what that meant for the first time. Because I didn't quite understand what that meant. Those are painful decisions, to take money away from people."