California Legislature: Where cost-cutting plans go to die

The L.A. Times reports:

Despite the swelling state deficit, the Legislature this week dumped several proposals that would have saved taxpayers millions of dollars.

Killed in committee were plans to freeze salaries for top-paid state workers; to abolish a waste board stacked with handsomely paid former legislators; to scale back a $185-million project for a new lottery headquarters; and to generate up to $2 billion by selling surplus property.

You'll want to read the whole thing.California is Chrysler on a much bigger scale.