Arnold Schwarzenegger:

We must not raise taxes or borrow money to cover up fundamental problems. 

David Brooks:

Stimulus size is not the key factor in determining how quickly a country
emerges from recession. The U.S. tried big, but is emerging slowly. The
Germans tried small, and are recovering nicely.

The economy can?t be played like a piano ? press a fiscal key here and the right job creation notes come out over there. 

…

If you look around the world today, you see that a two-class system is
coming into being. Some countries are undertaking fundamental reforms.
In those places, weaknesses have been exposed. Orthodoxies have been
shattered. New coalitions have formed.

This is happening in Britain, where a center-right government is reining
in a government that had spun out of control. It?s also true in Sweden
and other consensus-based countries, where there is so much emphasis on
consistent, long-range thinking.

In other countries, political division frustrates long-range thinking.
The emphasis is on fixing things for next month or next quarter. The
U.S., unfortunately, is struggling to get out of Group 2.