Jerry Brown and the Other Side to the Story

So while the left continues to drool over the work Gov. Jerry Brown is doing in California, gushing over a one-time $4bn surplus, might I point out a few inconvenient truths courtesy of The Economist:(1) The top 1% of earners alone pay 33% of the state's expenses. Holy fair share batman!(2) $355 billion of unfunded liabilities (with a B) - promised pension and health care benefits we haven't paid for. Those liabilities are growing $22 million per day(3) Highest poverty rate in America and a public school system no longer the envy of Arkansas and MississippiTackle the teachers unions; you can do something in California. Other than that it's band-aids and can-kicking.

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