Paul's California Budget 2004-2005 Explorer

Category	2005 Spending	Percent change vs 2002	Federal Funds	Your share
Sec for Youth and Adult Corrections -- State Operations	$1.5 Mil	72.7 %	0	$ 0.07
Office of the Inspector General -- State Operations	$0	-100.0 %	0	$ 0.00
CA Department of Corrections	$5174.5 Mil	-0.3 %	2.5 Mil	$ 226.91
Board of Corrections	$5.6 Mil	-95.1 %	69.5 Mil	$ 3.29
Board of Prison Terms -- State Operations	$25.1 Mil	-15.6 %	0	$ 1.10
Youthful Offender Parole Board -- State Operations	$0	-100.0 %	0	$ 0.00
Department of the Youth Authority	$319.5 Mil	-11.0 %	1.5 Mil	$ 14.07
Correctional Peace Officer Standards/Trg -- State Operations	$1.1 Mil	-48.8 %	0	$ 0.05
Federal Immigration Funding-Incarceratn -- State Operations	$-66.2 Mil	-22.5 %	66.2 Mil	$ 0.00
General Obligation Bonds-YAC -- State Operations	$275.3 Mil	19.8 %	0	$ 12.07
TOTAL YOUTH AND ADULT CORRECTIONAL AGENCY	$5736.4 Mil	-2.0 %	139.7 Mil	$ 257.56

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.