A shithole state with a balanced budget and a 9 billion dollar surplus...Makes Okiehoma look like the shithole state. They and Kansas be in debt something awful.
California has never had a surplus or balanced the budget either.
Earlier this month, California Governor Jerry Brown strode to a podium in Sacramento and said something that, a few years ago, seemed as unlikely as a UFO landing atop the state Capitol: The
initial projection for the state budget showed a balance. In fact, for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, there’s a surplus of $851 million. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, which just a couple months earlier estimated a deficit of $1.9 billion,
concurred with the governor: Revenues matched expenditures in the initial outlook for the first time since before the Great Recession.
Back from the Brink
I did get the surplus wrong but I only scanned the story and I'm high af so kill me...