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On Monday, California's Assembly busied itself with an array of pressing matters, including resoundingly embracing a resolution to name a freeway interchange after a San Jose city councilman. More than a fourth of the state's legislators, unconcerned about the lack of a budget, are convening fundraisers at Chops, Spataro, Frank Fat's, Pyramid Ale House, the Firehouse and other hangouts this week in hopes of enhancing their personal campaign budgets.
If you were looking to take some easy shots at government waste and abuse, you’d have a hard time topping California State Auditor Elaine M. Howle’s recent assessment of the Golden State’s 14-year-old high-speed rail project.
Even when times were good and the tax money was rolling in, as during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s or the real estate-boom of the mid-2000s, instead of saving some money for use during a recession, virtually all the surplus tax money collected was spent on increasing the budgets of state agencies and pension spiking. No “rainy day” fund ever was funded.
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