it wasn’t voters who decided to increase the number of state government and public school jobs paid for by taxpayers from 719,000 in 1997 to 895,000 in 2007 \u201d\u201c an additional 176,000 employees. That translates into 48 added jobs a day every day for 10 years.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t voters who changed laws to allow public employees to retire with extravagant pensions equal to 90 percent of their final pay \u201d\u201c without resolving how to pay the eventual tab.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t voters who approved a 37 percent pay hike for prison guards and bizarre, unprecedented concessions to the guards that gave them a management say in Corrections Department decisions \u201d\u201c helping make California prisons more than twice as expensive per-inmate than Florida’s.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t voters who refused to look at ways to relieve costly overcrowding at prisons, even as states such as New York enjoyed great success with reform measures.<\/p>\n