Indiana

Budget Battles

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

If today’s budget hearing in the House Ways and means Committee is any indication, it’s going to be a somewhat testy legislative session.

Democrats chastised and at time raised their voices at Daniels administration officials over their proposed budget.   Chairman Bill Crawford and OMB Director Ryan Kitchell got into a slight exchange. And Vice Chairman Scott Pelath and Budget Director Chris had somewhat of a verbal scuffle.

What did they argue over?  The usual stuff; education, prison funding, economic development, accounting techniques, etc.

The best way I can describe this is like a family having money problems and they can’t decide whether to dip into their savings account.

The sad part is this is only going to get worse.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).