Performance review instead says payroll growth should be slowed, not stopped. If a proposal to overhaul state government to be released today amounts to "blowing up the boxes," state workers won't catch much shrapnel. The California Performance Review doesn't envision a radical shrinking of the state work force in favor of privatization or curtailing government services. Instead, it calls for a relatively modest reduction of 12,000 in the projected growth of the payroll in the next five years. The state's work force would keep growing - just not as fast as anticipated. By comparison, the state payroll - in real...