George Mitrovich: California: Failed State

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George Mitrovich: California: Failed State

Jun 2nd, 2009 - The Huffington Post

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Do not let the sun go down on your anger.

I do my best to follow the biblical injunctions of the Christian New Testament, but when it comes to the state of California and letting the sun go down on my anger, I am, in that and other regards, a failed disciple.

How could any rational, thoughtful, informed person be anything other than angry at the condition of California government? How could it come to this? How could the most populous and wealthiest state in the union by every standard of comparison,

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