If another state has a balanced budget, they are certainly free to look at greater infrastructure development.   Oregon is not one of those states.  Time to pay the piper.    We can cut spending, we raise revenue, but we can't expect growth alone to correct these problems.   Population goes up, government service cost will increase by volume alone,( even if per/unit cost remains the same).    

It's not insurmountable and I'm glad to see that Gov Brown is taking cost cutting seriously.   Good to grab the low hanging fruit (like competitive bidding), to build some momentum.   It remains to see how much of her own party will agree with her.