Jerry Brown's last budget: 19 billion reasons to smile and two big questions

[TexasTowelie]

Gov. Jerry Brown has 19 billion reasons to feel optimistic when he releases his last budget proposal this week.

Eight years after he took office in the free fall of the Great Recession, the state is on pace to build a $19.3 billion surplus by July 1, 2019.

But these are not necessarily flush times, warn the liberal policy advocates who normally would be urging Brown to put the surplus into new government services.

They see two strong headwinds they expect Brown to cite when he reveals a budget that salts away revenue and avoids expensive commitments.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article193579089.html

[Sophia4]

1. Jerry Brown is a good governor. We are lucky here in California.

[byronius]

2. Man saved our collective bacon. I honor him. The whole Brown family just rocks.

[Cartoonist]

3. The Kansas model

Kansas and the GOP need to see how liberalism works.