Randy Alcorn

Do you get the impression Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has reached a level of flippant frustration in his efforts to "fix Kaleefornya?" The latest budget impasse may be the final, insulting reality that blew away any illusion he had that the nation's most populous state, and one of the world's largest economies, can be rationally governed. His recent executive order to reduce state employees' pay to the federal minimum wage level, and to lay off thousands of part-time state employees, might be an expression of peevish exasperation, but it does strike at the heart of California's chronic budget problem, namely bloated staffing and overpaid government employees. Not...