California now has so much projected revenue that Sacramento legislators don't what to do with it,
The New York Times' Adam Nagourney reports.The final budget surplus figure for 2014 will fall somewhere between $1.2 and $4.4 billion, depending on who's counting.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/california-confronts-budget-surplus-2013-5#ixzz2hAotIM9D
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
ohh thats rich.
that "surplus" is entirely the result of deferred maintenance on the infrastructure.
they are still flat ass broke, wallowing in debt and unable to keep the roads in repair.
sacramento sucked off fat sacks of cash from the already impoverished county and city governments to try and balance the books, they fucked the people to try and fix their failing credit rating so they could sell more bonds, and eventually lend us some Preparation H for our abused asses.
california is wallowing in it's own diseased filth and will remain there until the economic realities sink in at the capitol and they stop spending like drunken sailors on boondoggles, while slashing programs for kids, the poor, the indigent and the elderly.
Jerry "The Once and Future Governor" Brown did every last one of the things the left accuses the right of wanting, cuts to education, cuts to welfare, cuts to food stamps, cuts to universities, cuts to medi-cal, cuts to state employee pensions, cuts to inner city youth programs, engaging in for-profit prisons, etc etc etc, all to build his giant model train between SF and LA, at a cost of SIX MILLION DOLLARS A DAY (weekends and holidays included) for the next decade.
wheres your liberalism now cheesie?