> Budget clash may mean lasting state debt
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> Lawmakers avoid blame, ignore future deficit
> Mark Simon, Chronicle Political Writer
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> All of which points to what Democrats say is the absurdity of California's
> budget process, which requires approval by two-thirds of the state Senate
> and Assembly. Only two other states, Arkansas and Rhode Island, have a
> similar requirement.
It's so sad. The West Coast has its problems, but it's the only halfway functional accumulation structure the US has these days, and now its archaic Bananamerican political DNA is going to do it in -- like an organism which has accumulated too many biotoxins or something, its natural history catching up with it.
The rule of the majority vote has become a revolutionary demand.
-- DRR