text: Wow! I  For some reason you read way too much in my comment. Who can deny that the price of oil put us in this position no matter that the state spent like a drunken ______? Who can deny that if the legislature controlled the price of a barrel of oil and increased it to $225 per barrel we would not be in this position? The decline in the price of oil is not an excuse, it's just a cold, hard fact.