Paul's California Budget 2004-2005 Explorer

Category	2005 Spending	Percent change vs 2002	Federal Funds	Your share
Business and Housing	$283.9 Mil	-86.2 %	147.4 Mil	$ 18.91
Transportation	$5411.1 Mil	-3.4 %	2556.1 Mil	$ 349.21
Statewide Distributed Costs	$355.9 Mil	88.8 %	0	$ 15.60
TOTAL BUSINESS, TRANSPORTATION, AND HOUSING	$6050.8 Mil	-22.9 %	2703.5 Mil	$ 383.72

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.