[Gritty]

gaping budget deficits and revenues that continue to sag.

I know this is a silly thing to suggest, but why doesn't California try cutting expenses? Are they trying to tell us there's nowhere in that larded, bloated budget where they can't save a few wasted billion, much less eliminate scores of useless programs and legions of deadwood employees?

[Schatze]

That's what the Republicans keep telling the Demoncrats: Balance the budget by cutting spending -- no new taxes! That's why California doesn't have a budget yet.

The state controller, God love her, has cut off paychecks for all the legislators until a budget is passed. Works for me.

[KevinDavis]

Your asking the government the impossible. Stop spending.