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For five years, the state has been struggling to close a chronic budget gap that began when soaring income-tax revenue from the high-tech boom was spent on permanent programs, producing a big shortfall when revenue returned to normal levels.
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Some stewardship of the state and its budget and economy, huh, c'Rats? And you expect to have any credibility in anyone's eyes except your own beloved lefties and unions?
The Midas Touch of the liberals. Spend, spend, spend for empowerment. Without more and more money to spend to BUY THEIR VOTES AND POWER, they are dead meat. And look at the generic result -- a state economy and demographics, destoryed.
When will the mindless stop voting for these give-away artists???
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)