paterson also made reference in his speech to the economic woes being faced in the united states, calling them a "crisis", and promised to "adjust the budget accordingly". since 1984, new york state has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading paterson to call for an "end to the dysfunction in albany" in his speech, echoing a 56-page study from the nonpartisan new york university school of law's brennan center for justice, which referred to the legislature as "the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation".