corrupt system, where public unions work to get them elected so they can get them passed. all morning, i have been thinking about the scene in the first god father when don corleoni stands up and says how did things get so bad? how did things get so bad in wisconsin, in washington? if you begin with that question and pull it back, then you can have the rich promises. if you look at what we promised to do in social security, over time, it is a mushroom cloud of debt. and just by trimming the promises out over a willing period of time it make as a lot of sense, but you have to have some sort of detat over the political attacks and it has to start at the top. and the political process and the president. how did it get so bad? we ve been predicting for years that california was headed for a cliff. you can only give away so many