Re: No sighing allowed
The reason I put the first link in, along with the additional link with the same information but newer, was the explanation included for the Federal funds.
^More than one-third of the $62 billion in state revenues in Texas in fiscal 2004 came from federal payments for programs administered by the state such as Medicaid, No Child Left Behind, and Temporary Aid to Needy Families.^
All states get these. It's social spending. I don't like it, and think it's part of the slow destruction of our Federal system, but there it is.