State policies work against good fiscal management
The oft-cited waste and abuse is a problem, but the deficit is bigger than the entire state bureaucracy. California could fire every state employee — including well-paid prison guards and university professors — close every government office, stop all travel and even cease the purchase of paper clips without closing the budget gap. The government would be gone but the deficit wouldn’t.
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by Evan Halper, The Los Angeles Times.