Paul's California Budget 2004-2005 Explorer

Category	2005 Spending	Percent change vs 2002	Federal Funds	Your share
Secretary for State and Consumer Servic -- State Operations	$746 K	-2.7 %	0	$ 0.03
California Science Center	$17.4 Mil	-1.9 %	0	$ 0.76
Consumer Affairs-Regulatory Boards -- State Operations	$181.5 Mil	9.3 %	0	$ 7.96
Consumer Affairs-Bureaus,Programs,Divs -- State Operations	$139.8 Mil	4.5 %	1.1 Mil	$ 6.18
Dept of Fair Employment and Housing -- State Operations	$13.5 Mil	-16.7 %	5.2 Mil	$ 0.82
Fair Employment and Housing Commission -- State Operations	$1.1 Mil	-8.8 %	0	$ 0.05
Franchise Tax Board	$454.3 Mil	8.7 %	0	$ 19.91
Department of General Services	$239.4 Mil	12.8 %	0	$ 10.49
State Personnel Board	$3.3 Mil	-49.1 %	0	$ 0.14
TOTAL STATE AND CONSUMER SERVICES	$1051.0 Mil	8.1 %	6.3 Mil	$ 46.35

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.