Paul's California Budget 2004-2005 Explorer

Category	2005 Spending	Percent change vs 2002	Federal Funds	Your share
Secretary for Environmental Protection -- State Operations	$4.0 Mil	-22.2 %	0	$ 0.18
State Air Resources Board	$115.1 Mil	-14.5 %	11.4 Mil	$ 5.54
CA Integrated Waste Management Board	$164.5 Mil	45.3 %	0	$ 7.21
Department of Pesticide Regulation	$53.9 Mil	8.0 %	2.2 Mil	$ 2.46
State Water Resources Control Board	$350.9 Mil	-16.9 %	126.5 Mil	$ 20.93
Department of Toxic Substances Control	$132.9 Mil	10.6 %	21.5 Mil	$ 6.77
Ofc of Environmental Health Hazard Asmt -- State Operations	$10.9 Mil	-6.0 %	0	$ 0.48
General Obligation Bonds-Environmental -- State Operations	$13.4 Mil	-21.3 %	0	$ 0.59
TOTAL CALIF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY	$845.7 Mil	-3.2 %	161.5 Mil	$ 44.15

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.