GREAT news out of California

Quote from AC3:

I was watching the local news in LA last night ... they are doing away with Summer School and closing several state parks to save a few dollars. Oh and by the way got my car registartion for this upcoming year up 76% over last year which was up 200% because of the last emergency .... in the words of Col Troutman "Its over Johnny.... Over!"
Not just Petaluma Schools? All I could find on the web was from May20th that Petaluma was canceling ALL summer school classes.
 
They need to completely open the border with Mexico and lure some hard working people with free well fare, education and health insurance.

Equilibrium will be reached eventually so why fight it?
 
Quote from bond_trad3r:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/28/MN4417SV8H.DTL

Isn't it interesting that Texas does not have anywhere near these problems?? I wonder why :D :D

two gems in that article

1) "The only state workers who would not face a pay cut are legislators and court workers, who have their own budgets. "

2) The union state workers, who are whining they have done enough, when they haven't been subjected to the layoffs like the rest of America, and one of the few groups left who get nice pensions (not just 401ks)
 
Quote from Ivanovich:

Perhaps Bernanke is thinking about crushing the dollar to the breaking point, driving gold through the roof, and then the US will dump all of it's gold to satisfy it's debt problem (which would probably do it).

Nah. All the gold in Fort Knox is worth a pittance compared to US debt obligations. And if the US suddenly dumped gold, the price of gold would go through the floor.
 
Quote from S2007S:

GOLD is still cheap, new highs are coming and I believe its going to 1200 by end of 2009 and 1500-2000 sometime over the next 12-18 months.

unless it doesn't
 
Quote from TraderZones:

Nah. All the gold in Fort Knox is worth a pittance compared to US debt obligations. And if the US suddenly dumped gold, the price of gold would go through the floor.

Afraid you're right.

U.S. gold holdings are 147.3 mil. ounces. Even at $2000 an ounce that is only 294.6 Billion dollars. The national debt is $63 Trillion.
 
"Thus far, Schwarzenegger has proposed devastating spending cuts that would eliminate popular health care, welfare and college cash grant programs, cause up to 80 percent of state parks to close and result in the release of thousands of inmates from California prisons."

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So if you can't get pay the bills, you release the prisoners???


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We have a very challenging time ahead of us," Schwarzenegger told reporters Thursday afternoon at the Capitol while promoting a $56,000 electric Hummer.

"There's not a minute of the day when I don't think about ... and see the faces of the kind of people that this will affect," he said before taking the Hummer for a quick test drive. Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear said trimming the pay of 235,000 state workers will be a significant part of the governor's $3 billion spending reduction proposal.

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Sounds very similar to a guy who said that the "terror must stop... now watch this drive."

Too funny.
 
Quote from pspr:

Afraid you're right.

U.S. gold holdings are 147.3 mil. ounces. Even at $2000 an ounce that is only 294.6 Billion dollars. The national debt is $63 Trillion.

Buy puts on gold and dump the reserve. That should bring in about couple of trillion which pays for the spending of last 3 months.
 
Quote from TraderZones:

two gems in that article

1) "The only state workers who would not face a pay cut are legislators and court workers, who have their own budgets. "

Yeah, I was just going to reply on that one. Why did I already know that without reading the article?

The only state workers who would not face a pay cut are legislators and court workers, who have their own budgets.

Here's another one:

California now faces a staggering $24.3 billion deficit.

The deficit is rising faster than they are cutting.
 
This may be end game folks. It's going to be impossible for California to stay out of bankruptcy unless it receives directly help from the Fed... either of them :p

It will set a dangerous precedent if the bailout does occur but the other 49 states will lose fiscal discipline and blackmail the Fed govt for loan guarantees or they'll declare bankruptcy.

A state declaring bankruptcy can't be good news for the bond market.
 
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