[MovedfromFL]

Brace for more cuts to education, Medicaid, and other spending in Florida for 2012. The revenue picture is turning cloudy.

Florida could face $2.25 billion shortfall in 2012 | Ocala.com

Lawmakers will have to find nearly $1 billion to fund growing needs in Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor and disabled.

This is what I've been fearing for many states: growing Medicaid rolls are taking money from other programs, like education. Now FL needs to spend $1 B more on Medicaid next year, while facing a $2.25B deficit.

At this point, I really think we need a miracle to turn this economy around.

[AR007]

This is bad. We need more revenue, Florida's public schools will end being dead last.

[boxus]

It is not the economy, it is the spending. Medicaid should have never occurred, and when it did, it should have not been expanded to what it is now.

[MovedfromFL]

What concerns me is that under "Obamacare", Medicaid is to be vastly expanded, and the states will be forced to eat the cost. For a state like FL, that is going to be a disaster.

Also, we still owe the feds for all of the unemployment payments that we borrowed these last few years!