- California's budget deficit
- California's inept government
- California's inept governator
- California's misguided Democratic legislators
- Unions that represent California's public employees
Come to think of it, those are all one subject -- except for the inept governator. California's public employee unions finance the election campaigns of Democratic candidates for the legislature. Once elected, the legislators are beholden to the unions. Legislators structure legislation to require more workers or higher pay or both. Unions collect more dues and use a portion to elect more friendly legislators who vote to increase public sector payrolls. As a result, Californians get more government than they need and bigger deficits than they can afford.
As for the governator, he's simply incompetent. Ostensibly a Republican, he's often gone along with legislative Democrats and he refuses to defend Prop. 8. Each year he signs roughly three quarters of the thousand or so bills that the legislature produces.
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