Editorial: Don't Blame State Employees

California state workers' salaries and benefits aren't the cause of the economic crisis that makes massive budget cuts necessary, according to Martin J. Bennett, who teaches American history at Santa Rosa Junior College. As he explains in this February 14 BeyondChron editorial, it was big business and the wealthy who gamed the deregulated financial system to make huge profits, and their speculation in the home mortgage markets triggered the Great Recession.