A Brief Look at California's Budget FAIL

In a small effort to be a good citizen and understand wtf is going on with my state, I decided to make a picture of recent California expenditures and revenues. I took raw revenue and expenditure data and adjusted it for inflation and population. The result is per-capita expenditure (red) and revenue (green) in constant 2000 dollars.It looks like the budget was out of control in the pre-Schwarzeneggerian era (he assumed office Nov 2003), improved somewhat in 2004 and 2005, and then drunken sailor-esque spending kicked in while revenues trailed off.

A much more ambitious task would be to figure out on what the money is being spent ... hmmm ... I think I'll have a Bud Light instead.