I don't think any of you "just cut the government" crowd really understand the math behind the budget and it's funding.  At the level at which it's in the red it would be impossible to just cut our way out.  We're talking over half of the budget is unfunded.  Just think about that, how would you could cut half of expenditures and not completely crater the state?
The real problem is our legislature just really sucks.  We are right back to the where we were 10 years when they threw Klott, Anderson, Kohring in jail.