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Given the current state of American politics, and those of our state of California, our founding fathers might well consider not just turning over in their graves but boring deeper towards the earth’s core. Yet amidst the almost unceasing signs of discord and hyperbolic confrontation, there exists a more sensible approach which could help rescue our wobbling Republic.
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Wishful thinking and noble intentions ignore California's slowing state economy, and a structural deficit —keyed largely to state worker pensions— a looming fiscal crisis.
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