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Tales from the Gilded State:

Instead of a further cut, the committee's Democrats voted to delay paying workers on June 30, 2010, until July 1, 2010. That would carry 1/12th of the state's $11 billion annual payroll into the 2010-11 fiscal year, and not count on the coming fiscal year's books.

Schwarzenegger was not mollified by the accounting trick.

"It's outrageous that the Legislature would ask Californians to pay higher taxes but refuse to cut the pay of state workers by 5 percent," the governor said in a statement released by his office. "This is exactly why so many Californians have lost faith in Sacramento's ability to solve problems."

Not that I support cutting the wages of state workers, or anything, but it is interesting that, if times are as desperate as people say they are, why would they do something like this? It encourages a cynical stance.