I actually work on that document, and if you look at page iv in the 2007-08 FBS, you see the General Fund column that totals $101 billion for GF, plus a prior year carryover balance of about $4 billion. To the right you will see other funding sources listed which add to “total expenditures” of $145 billion.

However, I was wrong in stating that the 2003-04 GF total was $99 billion, it was only $73 billion that year with a $1.4 billion prior year carryover. Like a lazy state worker, I did not look at the budget before responding to your post, so I apologize. You were comparing apples to apples, but not citing General Fund totals. I forgot how low it got that year. That was the last year that Davis was around, and that budget rips all the special funds to prop up General Fund programs.

Believe me, if there was $145 billion General Fund coming in annually, we would all be getting fat tax refunds, not closing state parks and letting inmates out of prison.