Oklahoma Has Biggest Deficit Among States

insurancejournal ^ | December 22, 2009 | insurancejournal.com

[Puddleglum]

“Oklahoma's 18.5 percent shortfall for the current fiscal year edges out Arizona's 18 percent, with Illinois in third at 16.5 percent. “

Not biggest in terms of total dollars, biggest in terms of shortfall between budget and revenues.

Oklahoma has probably got more bureaucrats per capita than any other state. It has commissions for commissions, for each county, for almost everything. It has the nation's longest state constitution, lots of it dedicated to defining government agencies. It is a mare's nest of entitled tinpot Boss Hawgs.

[conservativebuckeye]

You got it.

[dragnet2]

Oklahoma It is a mare's nest of entitled tinpot Boss Hawgs.

No different than Dallas or Miami. Some of the counties, states, and cites are just a little more sophisticated and are able to hide their corruption a little better.

[dragnet2]

They will have to cut services and benefits and raise taxes. It will not be pretty.

I'd sure like to be the guy that does the cutting...I'd cut tens of thousands of these government employee tax parasites.

[Tucson_AZ]

That sounds like Tucson.

Bridge to No Where

Rio Nuevo 1

Rio Nuevo 2

[the long march]

But of course. Sometimes the obvious goes unspoken

[the long march]

Hey I am happy, joyous and free. I am ever a realist but I am a grown up and can handle the truth. ;)

[dragnet2]

That is very commendable.

[dragnet2]

Clearly all the States are in some kind of financial trouble or soon will be. They will have to cut services and benefits and raise taxes. It will not be pretty.

Just curious, if they cut services, and benefits why do they need to raise taxes? Is this not what got us to this point?

[okie01]

Why don’t they just ask the federal government for more free stuff to make up the difference? My Oakie friends, feel free to field that gem of a question :-)

For one thing, you'll notice that Oklahoma has had a unusual solution to the revenue shortfall...

They cut spending!

[dragnet2]

Oklahoma Has Biggest Deficit Among States

OMG!!

[YankeeinOkieville]

and $100 per female over 18 in Oklahoma because Oklahoma girls are just not human.

Excuse you!? YankOkie, who IS one

[parsifal]

The one I knew, had a pet rattlesnake. Once the snake bit her. She bit it back.

parsy, who says that just ain’t right

[YankeeinOkieville]

And so you prejudge an entire group, most of whom you’ve never met, based on one person you USED TO know once upon a time?

[parsifal]

Be honest. You have a pet rattlesnake, don’t you? And you hit men upside the head with a cast iron skillet, too, don’t you? Go ahead be honest. Your man every once in a while says some little something wrong, and you grab your skillet and WHAM, you whomp him right upside the head when he hasn’t even done anything wrong.

parsy, who has PTSD (Post Traumatic Skillet Disorder)

[dragnet2]

Bttt

[YankeeinOkieville]

My man died on my birthday a few years ago.

I’ll just chalk up your mean-spirited comments tonight to one too many rum toddies on this blessed eve and wish you a Joyous Christmas anyway.

[SunkenCiv]

• Transportation stalled; governor declares state of emergency [Oklahoma]
• All interstates closed in Oklahoma City; H.E. Bailey and Turner turnpikes also closed

[Pining_4_TX]

Bwa-ha-ha! I’ll be like Yosemite Sam who said he was going to buy the old ladies’ home and throw the old ladies out! ;-)

[Pining_4_TX]

Sad, isn’t it? People have bought into the idea that a handful of people can create prosperity and progress. It’s just Soviet 5-year planning on a smaller scale, but it is just as corrupt and wasteful.