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Washington State Economy & State Budget

The_TimThe_Tim
edited February 2009 in The Economy
Gregoire on the campaign trail in 2008:
When I came into office, I inherited a 2.2 billion dollar deficit. I balanced the budget, I invested, I've turned it into a surplus, and today--yes, today--we have money in the bank. We're one of the few states that does, but we have money in the bank.
Gregoire's spokeswoman today:
She wants people to understand that it's going to get worse before it gets better.
The P-I on the ever-increasing budget gap in Olympia:
What will that budget look like?

"Pick a bad adjective, look it up in your thesaurus and then pick a worse one," House Finance Committee Chairman Ross Hunter, D-Bellevue, said last week. His choice: "horrific."

Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairwoman Margarita Prentice, D- Renton, settled on "horrendous" to describe the impending budget cuts. "My expectation is that we will be making some heartbreaking decisions," she said. "Taking votes we figured we would never, ever have to take."
If only someone had warned us, so we could have been more responsible with the state's money, saving it during the boom and resisting the urge to expand government spending... Perhaps someone in some sort of high-ranking position in state government, like some sort of money expert or economist or something.

Oh well.

Comments

  • Charles DeanCharles Dean
    If ONLY she had listened to you and read your manifesto we wouldn't be in this trouble. Now The Tim, we both know she is going to have to PAY :evil:
  • perfectfireperfectfire
    Charles Dean wrote:
    If ONLY she had listened to you the State's Chief Economist and read your manifesto a newspaper we wouldn't be in this trouble. Now The Tim, we both know she is going to have to PAY blame republicans :evil:
    Fixed that for ya since it doesn't seem like you bothered to read the OP.
  • The_TimThe_Tim
    perfectfire wrote:
    Charles Dean wrote:
    If ONLY she had listened to you the State's Chief Economist and read your manifesto a newspaper we wouldn't be in this trouble. Now The Tim, we both know she is going to have to PAY blame republicans :evil:
    Fixed that for ya since it doesn't seem like you bothered to read the OP.
    He was kidding around. :)
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