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Gov. Jerry Brown talks with reporters after speaking at the Alliance of California Law...

FOR SEVERAL years, Chicken Little prognosticators, myself included, have argued that the California we know was falling. With each, albeit late, budget that was passed, there were warnings that California could not continue its financial gimmicks that essentially kicked that can down the road.

In lieu of making tough choices and engaging in the antiquated political process known as compromise, there were just enough members of the Legislature who preferred their own ideology to making unpopular decisions that were in the long-term interest of the state.

If the additional cuts proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown come to fruition, those of us who offered warnings over the years will look like charter members of