this is some spectacular generosity toward some very specific parts of society among these governments that are pleading poverty complaining about giant state budget deficits. and states do have budget deficits. but all of these giveaways i just described are things that will make those deficits worse. all the beltway media reporting on the fight in the states is about how governors are making hard choices taking controversial steps to close their budget deficits but all of these things they are doing open budget deficits wider. they make the budget problems in all these states worse and they bend over backwards to do it. the people who are not benefiting from the republican generosity in the states are the ones facing the cuts. in georgia the legislature looking at cutting funding to the state university system by about $75 million. pennsylvania's republican governor proposing a more than 50% cut to that state's higher education system. in new jersey and south carolina republican governors want to drastically cut medicaid benefits. in arizona the republican governor's budget would get rid of health care for 100,000 poor people.