All you Meredith Whitney bashers pay attention the States still have issues. When the very municipalities who depend on funding from the states begin to ask to be "separated" into the 51st state because their savings (revenues) are robbed to fund the ludicrous spending of the state government you know you have a problem. The state is large, and fiscally difficult to manage as the article states, but that's no excuse. This spending craziness will only stop when we LET THE PEOPLE VOTE. Let them decided what budget to pass, what revenues to raise, and what services to slash. We can't trust the politicians to care about or properly represent the people they were elected to serve so we have to get the power back into the hands of the people before it's to late.
