"If it's broke, don't fix it"

[jpmassar]

California spends $49,000 a year on each prisoner, almost twice the national average. But it still has the country’s worst rate of recidivism, with 70% of people who leave prison ending up back in it, compared with 40% in America as a whole.

-- Economist

The latest motto of the California Legislature. It's so catchy, it's being adopted by the US Senate.