Arizona? Oklahoma?
Hmmm
Ping!
Hey now, The Age of Obama is hard on all 57 states.
Wealth redistribution (ie: looting state and federal coffers) and destroying nations doesn’t come cheap.
ping....lol
And Congress has just dropped their “Christmas present” on these states which is going make things even worse. That is, every state except Nebraska. They took a sweetheart deal to get this commie beast through Dingy Reid’s “senate.” The rest of the country will be paying their portion.
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 :-)
Thankfully, it seems that our governer isn’t bleating to congress for a handout, yet.
Not surprising that my State is hurting...but I suspicion that some other States are cooking the books and are even worse off. JMHO.
I suggest that Oklahoma impose a “Redneck Tax.” Maybe a nickel per beer can, $1.00 on any article of camo clothing, 50 cents per can of Bucksnort, $10 on each 4-wheeler, $50 per pickup (said tax to specifically exclude 1985 Dodge Ramchargers) and $100 per female over 18 in Oklahoma because Oklahoma girls are just not human.
parsy, who knew one real well
Like California does?
Or borrow on non-existent "future" revenues?
Like California does?
Or borrow on non-existent "future" revenues?
Here come the stories presented by the Lefties.
Bullshit....MSM (directed by Obama) tells us RECOVERY is going STRONG! Mui Stong! There’s not prolem here folks, just move along and keep voting for Democrats.
Can’t Oklahoma borrow money from one of their Indian casinos?
But, seriously, Oklahoma ought to be in better shape than most since they found a way to dry up the illegal population. And they led the way in closing meth labs. Seems they’re better positioned to survive the onslaught of freeloaders and drains on society that other more “tolerant” states.
They need to look elsewhere to find out why their shortfall is happening.
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter?
That’s what happens when a Democrat Administration and Congress try to dry up domestic energy production and cut dollars to OK.
What the stupid Democrat Administration in OK didn’t mention is that we have a rainy fund that can be tapped with this type of economy that has over $600,000,000 in it right now and almost $700M which comes close to balancing the budget. Republicans only control three statewide seats on the Corporation Commission. All the rest belong to Democrats who run the State agencies. The Treasurer and Equalization Board had to certify the dire straights in order to tap into the rainy day fund which I didn’t see mentioned in the article.
Thanks Governor Henry for your poor leadership for 8 years as state agencies kept hiring and hiring. Gov Henry the Democrat Doofus was elected because of a Indy running. State Government has grown a lot. Henry keeps vetoing bills that would bring it in line. Republicans for the first time in history after 2008 control both houses of the legislature. Our Senate margin is so small that they cannot override Henry Vetos.
Mary Fallin will win the Governor’s seat and we should do well in most of the state races. Time to turn OK completely red at the state level as we have for President.
As an Okie (1956-1995), this sounds awful. Probably even more serious
than the oil bust of (IIRC) 1982.
The state is conservative, but somebody let things get out of hand.
But I been to Oklahoma
And this is just a flat out falsehood. California at 40 plus BILLION as a deficit far exceeds every other state. 12% unemployment in this state is record. AND the legislature is comprised of those like Pelosi and Boxer who continue to spend NO MATTER WHAT. Bleeech
Pols understand only money and power. Voters understand you cant vote them out of positions of power. Once in they will buy votes to stay in.
The alternative is to cut off the money. So sit on your wallet America. Drain the trough and the pigs will die.
"Some of these boards are highly paid, earning salaries of more than $100,000 a year for only a few meetings . . . boards and commissions . . . often have permanent staffs, pay rent, or create other costs for the state . . . Within the executive branch of state government, there are more than 300 boards, commissions, panels, task forces, committees and other appointed bodies . . . When state goals are pursued through un-elected boards and commissions, government is less accountable . . . state government has no master list of all boards and commissions and the thousands of political appointees that populate them."
Why not scrap all these stupid boards and commissions .. no, wait. Uh.. did they say political appointees? Never mind. We have to keep all these hundreds of boards and commissions. Out-of-office / out-of-work political hacks need the money.
Along with services for ILLEGAL aliens these boards and commissions will be the last to be cut.