Doyle: Wisconsin Not Alone in Budget Mess
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Posted: 10:52 AM Dec 3, 2008
Last Updated: 10:52 AM Dec 3, 2008
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Governor Jim Doyle says Wisconsin has plenty of company when it comes to major budget problems for the state government.

The governor says Wisconsin has a deficit projected to hit $5.4 billion by the end of the two-year budget cycle that starts next July.

He says 45 states represented at a meeting in Philadelphia with President-elect Barack Obama are in a similar situation.

Doyle says a federal bailout would help, but Wisconsin and other states still face deep, painful cuts in government spending.

He says any federal stimulus package to benefit the states should focus on such items as transportation, buildings, health care, unemployment compensation and the education system.

Doyle also says Obama did not talk in specifics about how much money may be in a stimulus package, or how much Wisconsin would receive.

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