[Texas_Jarhead]

"like a thief in the night"

[sailor4321]

To attempt to lay it on the Duke's doorstep is most ingenuous. If you want to go back to find root causes, try the Myer-Milius-Brown Act of 1972 which gave bargaining rights to public unions. Unlike in the private sector, the unions are the more powerful party, since no politician (other than Dave McClintoc) has been found who can stand up to the prospect of a public sector strike with its concomittant suspension of public services. Every area of public employment which has public employee unions should be outsourced to the private sector....

[BenLurkin]

The Sac Bee is missing an obvious point. State managers tend to "top out" early (usually [though not always] before their private sector peers. The average three years isn't likely to take much longer than the highest year once the employees top out.

[Amerigomag]

Why is it Norm that every time an article shows up discussing California's economic road to ruin in detail, Tom McClintock's name always shows up associated with common fiscal sense yet the pack of Republican moderates on this forum never miss a chance to bash this poor soul?

McClintock has apparently been on the side of economic reason and caution for years but he's never quite good enough for the anointed moderates. Well, the moderates are about to sink into the economic morass with their Austrian pretender at the helm and they are still blaming the conservatives for their continuing troubles.

[Lancey Howard]

Without benefit of a committee hearing or any serious public analysis, the Assembly passed the bill at 2:45 a.m. on a 71 to 1 vote. (Then-Assemblyman and now Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, cast the only no vote.)

Tom was the only one who cared that the obvious would happen? That retiring government drones would routinely be given exorbitant final year salary boosts so that their pensions would go way up? Freakin' duh.

[Carry_Okie]

(Then-Assemblyman and now Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, cast the only no vote.)

Figures. He must have done something radical, like reading the bill.
Deukmejian had no excuse.

[djreece]

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