Cash-poor states eager for Obama plan: At least 40 states are running deficits

WWLP-TV / The Associated Press ^ | January 2, 2009 | Beth Fouhy

[2ndDivisionVet]

Has anyone in Congress, the Statehouses or "Office of the President-elect" ever read the U.S. Constitution?

[Red Badger]

At least 40 states are running deficits?....And this is my fault how?...............

[Brilliant]

Looks like more proof of the “failure of Big Government.” The taxpayer is going to have to bailout Big Government.

[MahatmaGandu]

Obama’s ‘plan’ is to take more of our cash. I’m not sure how that’s supposed to help.

[Dr. Ursus]

Um,you know,I guess giving benefits to illegal aliens didn’t
work out so well?

[posterchild]

Which are the up to 17 10 states that are not running a deficit?

[BenLurkin]

Stupid.

The taxpayers in California are going to get gouged in the long run to pay all that Federal debt.

It'll leave that much less for them to pay in State taxes!

[Williams]

Bingo, might we learn something from the 10 states that don’t have deficits? The idiocy of the government is maddening.

[Williams]

In a sane world we would cut aid to the bloated deficit states, and give a bonus in aid to the balanced budget states. The latter are the ones who might be needing and deserving help.

[posterchild]

I would have expected the author to help us start that investigation with a simple list, but once again I was disappointed.

[Red Badger]

The Legislatures and governors who voted to spend like drunken sailors should all be horse whipped.............

[Outland]

"a California regulatory board halted financing for some 1,600 infrastructure projects because of the state's nearly $15 billion deficit."

Since California is so into socialism, the solution is simple.  All the voters who put all the socialist idiots into office should just get out there and work on those projects for free... for the good of the common people.  Isn't that what socialism and communism are all about?

[Eva]

In WA State, the Governor is under a lot of pressure because of her choices of budget cuts (aid to handicapped is being cut). To take some of the heat off of her other choices, she has stated that she supports deportation to reduce the cost of incarceration in the prisons.

She shocked a lot of liberal supporters on that one. I doubt if her recommendation will be acted on by the legislature. Maybe that’s why she suggested it.

[Kozak]

So we are about to bail each other out. Yeah, that’ll work.....

[Red Badger]

The only way government can bail out is by inflating the money................

[TheWasteLand]

Has anyone in Congress, the Statehouses or "Office of the President-elect" ever read the U.S. Constitution?

[Vigilanteman]

Yeah, that’ll work.....

Like GM bailing out Crysler . . .

[TonyStark]

Speaking for Texas and the other 9 states who are far smarter and more responsible than you fools:

Go get your own, creeps. You can't have any of ours.

[WVNan]

Last I heard, West Virginia was one of the 10.

[fso301]

Democrats just love “Big Dig” type projects.