California Needs Cuba's Answer

Raul Castro's Cuba has announced the layoff of half a million government workers, as reported in this Wall Street Journal article. WSJ quotes the Cuban Workers Federation as saying: "Our state can't keep maintaining...bloated payrolls," The Journal adds: "More than 85% of Cuba's 5.5 million workers are employed by the state."

It is clear that the Cuban government wants substantially more Cubans to work in the private sector. Now if California could only figure out it needs a dose of the same "medicine." Reducing CA state employment by 10% would go a long ways toward balancing the state budget.