“We haven’t paid for what we’ve done…we only have so much money,” he said, describing his budget as “my best cut on how to spend the money.”
Brown says he wants to “take the future and bring it forward and handle it,” as opposed to spending new money now and worrying later how to sustain the spending. “I find arguing with reality a chancy endeavor,” he said.
It is, however, a hard sell in a Legislature dominated by liberal Democrats in sync with unions and other groups now beating the drums for what they call “reinvestment” in myriad services and programs.
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