How many?  That would be 41.  That's right.  Forty-one states are now begging for taxpayer cash from Washington. 

Now I don't know just how they do their budgets in other states .. but I've been watching these clowns work in Georgia for many years.  Here's the Georgia routine.  Every year the legislature passes a budget.  At some point during that fiscal year they may find that tax revenues have exceeded the budget needs.  In other words .. there's some extra money.  So what do the Georgia legislators do when they're faced with this extra cash?  Do they save it?  Do they put it into a huge contingency fund?  Do they cut taxes?  Hardly ... they oink their way back to Atlanta to pass a supplemental budget to spend the extra cash.  The legislators line up like pigs at a trough to get some of that extra money for a playground, band uniforms, a new road or something in their district.  Year after year ... the same thing.

You ought to look at the pension plans these state employees get, not just here in Georgia but across the country.  Far and away better than most private sector plans.  And these pension plans are just the beginnings of wasteful and ridiculous spending.  How about arts programs?  Any government entity that is spending money supporting "artists" who don't have the skill to produce anything that can be sold in the free market should not be marching to Washington to beg for bailout money.

Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back?  Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?