Orange County Register: Jerry Brown is a coward

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown's recent talk to the California State Association of Counties was more meandering and disjointed than usual, but the governor stuck to his talking points: Unless California voters approve tax extensions, they must get used to greatly diminished public services. Without at least the tax extensions, he said, "we will get a radical restructuring of what we are."

This summarizes in a phrase the ideology of Brown, the Democratic Party and the unions that spent at least $30 million electing him governor. To them, California's greatness does not come from our entrepreneurship. It is not based in any concept of individual freedom. It doesn't stem from the state's history or its people. It is about government. To cut any of it means a fundamental restructuring in who we are as a people. Cutting or reforming government, in their view, makes us less decent and less humane. OCR

Here are your sticky wages. I say go ahead, call Brown's bluff and let the layoffs begin.