[o_zarkman44]

This is what happens when Democrats have total control of the budget, and a governor (or President) gives them everything they want.

Oh gee. who to blame?

[ucsd1974]

Californians recalled their former coin-operated governor Gray Davis who served up whatever the tax-consuming unions demanded. Schwarzenegger campaigned as a fiscal conservative, but forsook that concept once the teachers' union and other public employee unions started pounding him into submission. The California taxpayers are getting crushed in this Democrat-run state.