During the current state budget crisis we've heard a lot about "kicking the can down the road." Of course, everyone knows what that phrase means in the traditional sense -- "to put off" -- but not everyone understands what it means in a fiscal sense.
It boils down to this: while Governor Schwarzenegger and legislators agree that reforms are needed in order to reduce waste, fraud and abuse, what some legislators, including Speaker Bass, have seemed to disagree about is...
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