Re: “California’s other fiscal crisis,” Dan Walters, July 29.

Dan Walters does what he does best and makes a complicated and seemingly sleep-inducing issue insight concern.

It seems you can’t spell California state government without federal money these days. Walters reminds us that California’s place as the fifth-largest economy in the world is a fine line dependent on big checks from the feds piggybank and a favorable economy.

–Evan Harris, Carmichael

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