Reality check for California and CIRM

New York's Governor Paterson noted on 29 July: "Our state now faces increasingly harsh economic times. When I travel across the state, I see communities suffering. Everywhere I go I see people losing their jobs and their homes. My message to the Legislature is that next year's budget process starts now."

The NY Guv observed that the New York state budget deficit has gone up $1.4 billion in the last 90 days.

And that's without having something like the CIRM albatross hanging around the necks of New York taxpayers.

Meanwhile, californiastemcellreport worries about the perils of groupthink at CIRM. The problem is having CIRM at all.