Paul's California Budget 2004-2005 Explorer

Category	2005 Spending	Percent change vs 2002	Federal Funds	Your share
K thru 12 Education	$30412.1 Mil	-15.8 %	6745.2 Mil	$ 1628.66
Higher Education-Community Colleges	$3383.2 Mil	11.7 %	0	$ 148.29
Higher Education-UC, CSU and Other	$8076.9 Mil	4.3 %	7674.8 Mil	$ 690.42
TOTAL EDUCATION	$41872.1 Mil	-10.7 %	14420.0 Mil	$ 2467.38

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.