Telling the truth

The LAT's George Skelton finally gets to the bottom line in his column this morning when he writes: "Moreover, they [California's Democrat legislators] haven't been willing to buck public employee unions and support fewer paid holidays for state workers and a reform of overtime abuse. And they really don't want to get into scaling back public employee benefits -- pensions and retiree healthcare -- that in a rapidly changing world far exceed the private sector's and are ticking time bombs."

Skelton has long championed tax increases as the solution to California's budget crisis. It's good he's finally telling the truth.