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Buzzflash: Beware of the Invisible Financial Hand | www.kochwatch.org #wiunion

Buzzflash: Beware of the Invisible Financial Hand | www.kochwatch.org

Buzzflash: Beware of the Invisible Financial Hand

March 8, 2011- In California, the state government currently spends more than $34 billion a year paying private contractors to do jobs that civil servants can perform for half the cost. Another $900 million of taxpayer funds is wasted annually propping up the state's failed enterprise zone program. Common sense dictates that any proposal to balance the state budget begin here.

Instead, what is being implemented in state capitals across the country are plans to eradicate traditional