Boomer politico: we "screwed things up"

When the Greatest Generation took over state government, they built an entire freeway system, a water system, a higher-education system, and our entire K-12 structure on a state budget of less than $15 billion general fund per year. We can't build a dam, a freeway, a levee, a school or a university on $102 billion. We can hire 50,000 new bureaucrats who will sit around and collect $100,000 a year to think about how they can build a freeway, school, dam or university better, but they will never actually build anything. I wonder what our kids will say about us when we hand this mess over to them. "Greatest Legacy Being Destroyed" North County Times (California)