From the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE:
The game is called “Kick the can down the road,” and critics say state legislators have gotten really good at it.
While lawmakers are still patting themselves on the backs for enacting a complete state budget on time for the first time in eight years, observers from all sides of the political spectrum contend that the July 1 deadline was met mainly because many critical and controversial issues weren’t addressed.
The $28 billion spending plan for fiscal 2010-11 “is another budget where you put off until tomorrow what you are not politically willing to do today,” said Sen. Jim Ferlo, a liberal Democrat from Highland Park…
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