Cut spending - what most Americans do when income shrinks, why not government? You could fire 25% of the state Democratic apparatchiks in Austin and never miss a single one of them.
Lower taxes - attract and encourage business expansion and relocation, get more people employed = more revenue
Control borders - why are we paying tax $$$$ for free handouts and to incarcerate millions of illegals? If they are unwilling to obey the laws of entry, what makes anyone think they will respect any laws? Ship them home!
Drill baby drill! - Screw Obama’s tyrannical moratorium and let the environazis scream like the pansies they are. Create jobs, taxes and wealth with the resources God gave us. To borrow and adapt a phrase used during the Texas revolution, Come and stop us!
Do those four things and that shortfall vanishes quickly and unemployment ceases to be an issue. There is a much better chance of that happening here than in California and Washington. Its really not that difficult.
BTW - If Texas is as bad as California, why do I see so many Californians and blue state yankees moving to Texas right now?
We are nowhere near having the budget problems that California has. When the legislature meets in 2011 to prepare the budget for September 2011 - August 2012 and September 2012 - August 2013, they are required by law to balance the budget. Any “projected” spending above “projected” revenue must be approved by 4/5 of the legislature, which ain’t gonna happen, and Gov. Perry has a line-item veto. This article is pure horsesh*t. We will do what is necessary to cut spending and generate revenue so we can balance the budget. We haven’t yet begun to exhaust our options. We can use the $9b rainy-day fund, create more tax holidays to generate revenue, allow gambling, and other such things. We’re not even to the point of considering the legalization and taxation of marijuana. So we’re far from California’s budget troubles.