[rbbeachkid]

PLEEEEZE don’t bail us out!!!

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

If the state falls apart, we can finally rid the Democratic party from the state legislature.Republicans will then be in the majority.

[Redcloak]

Good. We need to go under out here.

[rbosque]

Yes, please don’t send us money...if they do it’ll come down to somehow the state losing its soul. Arnie and the leftists in the State legislature have to stop giving free money to special interests including illegals. We’re hemorrhaging from idiotic left-wing policies.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

This is the golden chance to rid ourselves of the socialism in Sacramento.

[Windflier]

The administration is worried that California will enact massive cuts to close its deficit, estimated at $24 billion for the fiscal year that begins July 1, aggravating the state's recession and further dragging down the national economy.

Do these idiots even read the crap they write? Do their editors?

How is enacting "massive cuts" and reducing the cost of the state government going to aggravate the state's recession or drag down the national economy?

I swear, these pea-brained government propaganda ministry hacks don't have the slightest clue of what they're saying. They don't even attempt to make sense.

[Safrguns]

Yeah... and who is going to bail out the US????

ISRAEL????

Yeah Bamo.... stick your shoe right up your own arse!

[kingu]

I don't want a federal bailout of California, I'd much prefer a citizen revolution to restore the state budget back to sanity, and snatch it away from the hands of unions...

But let's put this in perspective. California's asking for a quarter of what the feds initially spent on AIG, supposedly to assist 30,000,000 citizens and well over 3,000,000 employees. Sure, we'll ignore that the feds already pumped one heck of a lot of money in already through the bailout bill. That money's already spent here...

But come on, supposedly the Treasury's being paid back 80 billion they loaned to banks, how about a quarter of that for California?

It's a good thing that Democrats are absolutely blind to backstabbing by their own party as much as they're blind to Democrats who are absolutely corrupt. They might be ticked right about now. Wait, wait, I gotta go - my state senator's sharing information on legislation that she's going to pass next week, and I gotta join the herd in taking advantage of this information on the stock market. Oh, and then make sure my union exempts the trade so I don't have to pay taxes, as that's for the little people to do.

[dalereed]

Good, don’t change your mind commie!!!

[4rcane]

i hope they do bailout california and then bailout all other states who come crying for aid as well. This will fast pace the demise of the Federal government MUCH quicker which is ultimately good for us all

[Lancey Howard]

Even the lying scumbag Zero administration would have a tough time explaining to taxpayers in, say, Pennsylvania, why THEIR tax dollars are going to bail out the fools in California.

[Lorianne]

Fault Lines - California: Failed State - 11 June 09 - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj200NUQOFo

Fault Lines - California: Failed State - 11 June 09 - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRFF1Uo46VI

Little mention of illegal immigration or spending more than you take in.

[Danae]

This is what Socialism does, California is the endgame, they pushed the limit. Now the Nation as a whole better wake the hell up, because if it can happen there, it can happen anywhere. Socialism DOES NOT WORK.

[meadsjn]

"This matters for the U.S., not just for California," said U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who chairs the state's Democratic congressional delegation. "I can't speak for the president, but when you've got the 8th biggest economy in the world sitting as one of your 50 states, it's hard to see how the country recovers if that state does not."

Good points, Zoe. Quit thumbing your nose at the taxpayers and start cutting the graft.

[wafflehouse]

They will let this run right up to “dire crisis” and then start shoveling money out there so they (Obama Administration) can be the saviors. They got votes to worry about. state politicians are screwed if things get too bad. the feds are in this for themselves.

[beaware]

What a sight, girlyman asking girlyman for money... lol

[Caipirabob]

IMHO, this is a setup so that the Fed can step in with emergency powers. CA can then become the testing ground of every possible social experiment under careful scrutiny of the Fed and be used as a launching pad for socialist healthcare and everything else. It will be forceably instituted in CA, then deemed as "necessary" everywhere else.

Goodbye, CA - We hardly knew ya...

/tin foil...?

[Nervous Tick]

>> one of the biggest remaining threats to the economy

No bias or “editorializing” there. No sir! These journalists are PROFESSIONALS.

not.

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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

-- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

[OB1kNOb]

Too big to fail? I’d love to test that theory.