re: TOPS payments stopped immediately due to state budget crisis

I feel like any of the four candidates would have had to deal with this massive black cloud that just hit LA.

If oil were 65 dollars a barrel we are not having this conversation I promise you that. There is a difference between the state being bad off and being near rock bottom.

The Medicaid expansion with the budget crisis sitting in the wings was completly ignorant and showed me that this Governor does not have a clue what he is in for. Next year will be rock bottom unless we can open up the rest of the budget to cuts.

We will probably have to accept a certain level of tax increases as well however that will not put a dent into the problem. The massive amount of wasteful tax dollars is killing this state. There is zero justification for this state to have the 6th largest government per capita.