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If water is pouring from the sky, but the governor doesn’t want to see it, is it really raining? From where I sit, it is raining in Tennessee.
In his January 2008 State of the State speech, Gov. Phil Bredesen told the people, “We expect our revenues this year to fall at least $180 million below the final projection adopted last spring.”



