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Getting California's house in order
March 19, 2010 Filed in: Budget &
Finance
Alan
Bock, Brian Calle and Mark Landsbaum, The Orange County
Register The
state Legislature operates on the apparent notion that it should
spend as much money as politicians want to spend, or at least as
much as their constituents desire to have spent on them. That is a
bankrupting philosophy, rooted in the idea that government is the
granter of wishes, instead of the protector of rights. Ideally,
government would never spend a dime on anything except those things
that protect the peoples' God-given rights from those who would
abuse them. Alas, we don't live in an ideal world...