The Real California

From the San Fran Chronicle:

With the state budget balanced for the first time in years, Gov. Jerry Brown is roaring that "California is back," painting a rosier future for California with gauzy predictions of its "rendezvous with destiny."

But beneath the governor's flowery evocations of "bold pioneers" who followed "every failure with an even greater success," Brown tacitly acknowledged during his State of the State speech last week that California's present isn't what it once was....
California's reality now includes 6 million residents who live in poverty, more than at any time in its history. While the state's general fund may have stabilized, California must cover $27 billion in debt from past years and owes billions in pension obligations to state employees.
Nearly 10 percent of the state's residents remain unemployed, the third-highest rate in the country.
Brown and the Legislature were able to balance the budget because voters passed $6 billion worth of tax increases in November. The poor have made the biggest sacrifices on the altar of the budget's bottom line, as the state has cut $15 billion in health and welfare benefits to low-income Californians since 2009.
While Brown's budget this year doesn't include any additional cuts to health and welfare programs, the new reality means many poor Californians won't be getting additional help soon.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Jerry-Brown-s-state-won-t-be-what-it-was-4226677.php#ixzz2JEISkwzn
California may have balanced a fairy tale budget, they don't even come close paying off a lot of their debts and obligations.
And of course, who has run California?  Liberal Republicans liberal Democrats.