Jerry Brown

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1. 1938 age 0

   Born

2. 1984 age 46

   CreditThe Times of Harvey Milk

• JCJimmy Carter1 title
• MIMark Isham1 title
• RERob Epstein1 title
• DFDavid Fowler1 title
• FRFrances Reid1 title

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  Photo:State of CaliforniaPublic domain

• The idea that government has some omnipotence or omniscience is completely absurd and counter to all the thinking that went into our country.

  Jerry Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There is an overblown rhetoric and overblown expectation that if there is a problem there must be program to solve it.

  Jerry Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Many regulations primarily protect the past, prop up privilege or prevent sensible economic choices.

  Jerry Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The mistrust of our public institutions and mere anxiety about our future economy are more the order than the exception. Three quarters of the people do not trust their government. More than half of the eligible citizens in California again decided not to vote in the last election. Why? Why the anti-government mood? I asked this same question four years ago and now I believe I understand. Simply put, the citizens are revolting against a decade of political leaders who righteously spoke against inflation and excessive government spending but who in practice pursued the opposite course.

  Jerry Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In this decade government at all levels has increased spending faster than the true rate of economic growth… The cure for inflation has been administered with a vengeance. Yet most people feel worse, not better, about their government benefactor. The elderly find their fixed income eroding in half; those about to retire fear their future pensions will never keep pace. Ten million California workers see their wages rise but not as fast as prices. Those on welfare obtain larger grants but find more expensive groceries.

  Jerry Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Government, no less than the individual, must live within limits. It is time to bring our accounts into balance. Government, as exemplar and teacher, must manifest a self-discipline that spreads across the other institutions in our society, so that we can begin to work for the future, not just consume the present.

  Jerry Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0