dan schnur is a republican strategist and teaches at usc. and mark paul is an author of "california crackup." we'll be back with our guests? a few minutes but first a look of some of what ails the state. there is not much disagreement that government is failing. >> the people are frustrated because the state government, the structure does not work. it doesn't work the way that people expect it to work. >> and it may be about to get worse because revenues are $700 million below expectations. under a compromise budget that was already cut to the bone, additional cuts could be automatically triggered further threatening state services. schools are in bad shape and teachers are being laid off. colleges and universities are feeling the squeeze. prisons remain overcrowded. health programs for poor have been cut back, fixing those problems should fall to the state legislature and the governor. but as in washington, sacramento is the uc in a pattern of partisan wrangling, wrangling the public seems eager to see end. sacramento bee political columnis

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