Is your state experiencing budget cuts?

[CoffeeCat]

Our state of Iowa is experiencing massive budget cuts. I talked with two friends, who live
in different states (Arizona, California) and both of them said that their governors are
slashing their budgets and this would cause lots of job losses.

I'm wondering how widespread this is? Because if most governors are forced to cut state budgets, this
will certainly cause additional bad news on the unemployment front in each state.

The cumulative affect for our entire nation could be devastating.

Has your state cut its budget or does it plan on doing so in the future?

[OhioChick]

1. Ohio?

Not much left here to cut.

[skooooo]

2. Used to it now, and..

..no longer find it shocking.

[sandnsea]

3. That's why there is assistance in the stimulus

So states won't cut some of the most important programs, like food stamps, medicaid, and yes, contraceptives.

[LakeSamish706]

4. The following site was posted earlier by Alfredo....

http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/gapmap/index.htm

Pretty good URL for checking out your States situation...

[cynatnite]

7. Thanks for the link! n/t

[cynatnite]

5. Not really...

It's tightened a little, but TN appears to weathering the bad economy so far, but I don't expect it to last. This state is usually one of the last to feel anything like this.

[Double T]

6. There is very little left of No York, formerly known as.........

the State of New York. Even if we desperately wanted or needed it, we can't have it.

[Muttocracy]

14. No York! :) it sucks that we just got a Dem Senate and now we're broke. nt

[eilen]

15. yeah, between the cuts and new taxes....

some citizens have set up a website as a public service called:

patersonisyournewtax

[blue_onyx]

8. Michigan does have a deficit

so there will be budget cuts. The bigger problem is going to be in 2010, when we're expecting a pretty big budget deficit (at least 1 billion, I think). So MI will have to make some more budget cuts.

[foxfeet]

9. Washington State? Lordy, yes.

The Governor has made her budget recommendations to the legislature; now we get to wait to find out exactly what will be cut.

[Mari333]

10. its MICHIGAN you better believe it. nt

[Lebam in LA]

11. California

Need I say more? Arnie is real peach:sarcasm:

[ColbertWatcher]

13. Ditto. Fuck the GOP and their Great Aryan Hope. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. Yep. California. Hell yeah.

[nevergiveup]

12. In Illinois we are having a Governor cut.

[Odin2005]

16. Timmy the Tool Pawlenty is screwing us Minnesotans with his anti-tax BS.

:grr:

[Mojorabbit]

17. Florida is in horrendous shape.nt

[TreasonousBastard]

18. Well, one of the specific cuts in New York that bothers me is...

the planned budget has the state contribution to zoos, marinas, arboretums and botanical gardens cut to to ZERO. This after reducing its spending last year. That's how broke the "Empire State" is now.

Seems like small stuff with all the healthcare and other cuts, and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden having to cancel its Arbor Day celebration sounds like a joke, but these cuts, along with all the other arts and culture cuts, are in their own way devastating. The Bronx Zoo, for instance, is far more than a menagerie and is deeply involved in species preservation.

(And it prefers to be called the Wildlife Preservation Society, because that's what it sees as its real mission.)

[BlooInBloo]

19. I don't *think* WA has gone broke yet, but I haven't been specifically watching for it, either.

[ThoughtCriminal]

20. Arizona - bad - real - bad

We have a very regressive tax system that tilts heavily towards taxing the poor to lower middle class. Naturally, as sales tax revenues tanked, the budget situation became grave. GOP targets: Education, Universities and Health care. God forbid that Arizona's wealthy sacrifice anything.

It doesn't help that with Napolitano now gone for Washington, our new Governor is a know-nothing republican knuckle dragger. She figures that if she can become governor of a state without going ever going to college (something even Palin managed), why should it be necessary for anyone else?