Since this is pretty much what I wrote to the governor last night myself--only with the facts and figures to back the argument up--I love it. It's also one of the first media pieces I've seen so far that tells the truth about why California is broke. I applaud Hiilzik for being the first journalist to have the courage to break through the Republican talking points that have held the state in a stranglehold.

This piece gives what are probably good explanations of what went wrong and what solutions might be. But what it doesn't note is that all of the items seen as needing to be changed were originally approved by voters. They were responding with what they saw as solutions to perceived problems at the time (including replacing Davis with Schwartznegger). What the article doesn't address is how to reframe the debate so that voters can be convinced to change what they once put in place. .