I haven't been told those figures. We all know what we read in the paper about the budgets. I think the school has always been in the red, but not to that amount.

Some people, especially those on restricted budgets, want certainty. They want to know how much they'll be spending each month. Others don't mind; they'll play the market. We're only three or four years into deregulation in Texas. It's a 10- or 15-year process.

You can see from a case like this how the Medicaid system can have a substantial impact on county budgets.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.