Dan Walters: Davis' version of budget crisis doesn't square with history
The state's immense -- and still unresolved -- budget crisis has spawned, among other things, creative efforts to rewrite history.
August 11, 2003
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a mild downturn. Rather than make budget decisions based on that reality, politicians tend to act on faulty, if convenient, assumptions.
A phony history of California's fiscal crisis may serve Davis' political need to shun responsibility, but it just isn't accurate. And acceptance of reality is the first step toward fixing a badly broken budgetary process.
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