The California quagmire
May 24, 2010 Filed in: Budget &
Finance
Column: Karl Manheim, John S. Caragozian and Don Warner,
The Los Angeles Times - We share the emerging consensus that
California is broken. State government is failing its citizens in
education, infrastructure, parks and elsewhere. These failures, in
turn, cause counties, cities and school districts to slash their
own services. Given the Legislature's chronic inability to deal
realistically with the state budget, these failures may worsen. The
governor's recent May revise, pilloried in the May 18 Times'
editorial, "Schwarzenegger's 'ugly' budget," is another indicator
that the state's problems are escalating...