[Joe Hadenuf]

The taxpaying public wanted government to do all the things that government does these days.

The tax paying public also voted on things like Cal prop 187. Of course that didn't happen.

Look at it this way: somebody built those beautiful buildings, right? And they got paid for doing so. Right there, you have one element of your big-government constituency. Whenever local, state, or federal government expands, there are several sectors that make out like bandits: architects, general contractors,

Well then Poo, maybe we ought to start hiring more goverment employees, and building more beautiful government facilities, and triple the government employees salaries, benefits, and those already killer pensions? That way, us people in the private sector will benefit even more.

[Poohbah]

The tax paying public also voted on things like Cal prop 187. Of course that didn't happen.

Proposition 187 wouldn't have gotten rid of a single nanny-state program, or fired one government employee.