Let's put it another way. IF the state had just budgeted the rate if inflation from 1995 thru 2003 (about 4% - even that might be high) the budget would have gone from 45 billion to 62 billion in 2003 - not the 78 billion they say they need..
To budget OVER the inflation rate, in some years more than DOUBLE the rate, is a sure-fire blueprint for disaster.
And it looks like disaster is pulling into the station.
Rep. Tom Campbell says that since Davis was elected the state has added 50,000 new state government workers to its payroll. 50,000!!!!!