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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (458771)	2/23/2009 1:07:11 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572637

The budget adopted in a marathon session this week splits the baby, closing the deficit with spending cuts (hated by the left) and tax hikes (ditto the right), all the while largely failing to tackle the state's built-in structural defects. And not one mention of Prop 13, the biggest structural defect in the state. Even discounting for the impact of global recession, the most populous state's ills are unique and self-inflicted -- and avoidable. In the last three decades, California expanded the public sector and regulation to Europe-like dimensions. Schools, state employees, health care, even dog kennels, benefited from largesse in flush times. Government workers got 16 official holidays, everyone else six. The state dabbled with universal health care and adopted strict environmental standards. In short, California went where our new president and Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco want America to go. Oh my....16 paid holidays is what's doing the socialistic trick in CA. What a joke! Once again, you wingers refuse to see the big picture. The state is a mess because its been on a forced diet for 40 years.......the infrastructure sucks and is must worse the wear and tear than that of other states and the state has been unable to keep up with the population growth because it doesn't have enough frigging money. The country ain't going the way of CA because the country never bought into the ideology of the wingers like CA did back in the 1970s. When posting articles like this one, you should be careful not to have former CA residents in the audience.