Please remember that most state budgets are having trouble is because we just went through a huge national recession.

6 million people lost their jobs at the end of the Bush Adminsitration. Another 2 million lost their jobs at the beginning of the Obama Administration. We are now gaining jobs each month.

The reason we had the Great Recession is becasue the financial sector made huge bets on the housing market. They made bets they couldn't cover. Many of the largest banks were in deep trouble.

The financial sector spread the economic collapse throughout the country as people and businesses couldn't get loans.

Now the small businesses and people are getting hit again. Republicans are asking for cuts in education and health programs while handing out more perks to corporations and the wealthy.

Trickle down economics has been a failure. While taxes and regulations were lowered, we saw fewer jobs with lower pay. The gap between rich and poor hasn't been this large in 100 years.

We don't have a supply side problem in this country.  Corporations have lots of money, but few customers.  Giving more money and tax breaks to the corporations and the wealthy won't solve our problem.  We need customers.  Slashing teacher salaries to give more corporate bailouts is the wrong idea.