Steven Greenhut is director of the Pacific Research Institute's www.calwatchdog.com journalism center. He was deputy editor and columnist for The Orange County Register for 11 years. He is author of the new book, “Plunder! How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation.”
We're still a long way from reform, but the more the public learns of abuses the more supportive it may become of real reform.
There is virtually no chance a California state budget will pass by the constitutional deadline and absolutely no chance that any substantial reforms will pass - the type of things that do more than kick the can down the road. Where are the serious men and women? Where are the leaders? Sadly, you won't find many of them in the increasingly unserious state of California.
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