To the outhouse.
California's Education Code by which the state legislators micromanage California's schools at the behest of the teacher's unions has hit 2,000 pages and is growing.
Half of California's 600,000 public school employees do NOT work in the classroom.
25% of public school teachers send their children to private schools.
One in three school dollars goes to teacher pensions.
California depends on 200,000 wealthy taxpayers for 25% of its revenue. And California trails only New York in the number of people LEAVING the state. More would leave if they could sell their homes.
From 1999 to 2007, California lost 26% of its facory jobs and 35% of its high tech manufacturing jobs.
It has the lowest debt rating of any state. It used to have one of the highest.
It has the fourth highest unemployment rate. It used to have one of the lowest.
In jop growth since 2000 it is 20% below the national average.
State and county public safety employees retire at age 50 getting 90% of their final year's pay as their pension. Until they die. Life expectancy ? 79 years.
State employee pension funds receive over $3 billion in tax funds per year. Ten times what was contributed just 10 years ago. Yet the unfunded liability of those funds keeps growing. More than 5,000 retired state employees get pensions exceeding $100,000.
From 1997 to 2007 the state workforce grew 24% to almost 900,000.
Schwarzenegger succeeded the recalled "Gray-out" Davis on a platform of fiscal responsibility. Spending has increased 40% faster under "Ahhhnold" than under Davis. Since 2005, state spending has grown twice as fast as both inflation and the state's population.
In 2002 California's prison guards got a 37% raise. Now California is preparing to release tens of thousands of felons to both comply with court orders dealing with overcrowding and to help balance the budget. There are 19,000 illegal immigrants incarcerated in California.
California represents Liberalism and Democrat policies in full flower. The foregoing has resulted from decades of a Democrat legislature doing the bidding of the public employee unions especially the teachers and prison guards.
Nevada and Idaho have experienced record growth thanks primarily to the exodus of hardworking taxpayers from California. The tax exiles were replaced primarily by illegal immigrants.
New York and New Jersey are following California's lead over the same fiscal cliff.



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