Nicole C: You have set yourself up as an expert on the Calif Budget Crisis, I did not. I hear every day that we have a huge deficit, and I am simply asking where is that shown in the official figures. My off-the-cuff remarks show a level of knowledge that an average voter might have, based on ABC and CBS news reports. I am a blue collar type as I have said in other threads.

Other point is that we surely have a right to get back money we sent to DC, but that is "revenue" and not "budget" by all common sense.