Paul's California Budget 2004-2005 Explorer

Category	2005 Spending	Percent change vs 2002	Federal Funds	Your share
Legislative	$295.0 Mil	6.3 %	0	$ 12.93
Judicial	$2690.0 Mil	6.3 %	4.8 Mil	$ 118.12
Executive/Governor	$173.0 Mil	124.9 %	788.7 Mil	$ 42.15
Executive/Constitutional Offices	$987.4 Mil	1.9 %	35.9 Mil	$ 44.85
Statewide Distributed Costs	$6.6 Mil	new	0	$ 0.29
TOTAL LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL, AND EXECUTIVE	$4152.1 Mil	7.7 %	829.3 Mil	$ 218.34

Observations:

K-12 spending per pupil is $9614. That's approaching $300K per classroom...the teacher is not getting paid enough (optimistically $60K?), where is the rest of all that money going?
Medi-Cal is $20400 per recipient annually from the general fund alone. Something like 80% of people in nursing homes are on Medi-Cal thanks to asset-hiding loopholes that allow most people to appear bankrupt in the eyes of the state. (Source: Len Tillem KGO Radio)
The CA budget is way more complicated and convoluted than the federal budget. It's really quite impressive.