How do you define “worst deficit”? California has 10% of the population of the country, so our debt, in absolute dollars is the highest, but if you do the math, on a per capita basis, we aren’t the worst. California is also a net Federal tax “looser.” That is, we get less than a dollar back for a dollar sent to Washington while places like Mississippi have the reverse situation. So in a real sense, we are actually paying your bills, if you, in point of fact, are living in one of the states that get more from the Feds than you spend. So it is specious on its face to single out the “larger ones” for your retribution. And, just so you know where I am, I don’t want anyone other than the residents of each state to be held responsible for their own state’s debt. I also am not at all sure that the “smaller states” want to address their indebtedness more or less than the so-called “larger ones.” Lastly, it would be a disaster for the country as a whole to have Zero and his bunch print money to bail out any state. And you can bet that he would have to underwrite all the states if he started down that road. I guess guys like you stick in my gut because you practice the “blame game.” We are all in this problem together, so it really pisses me off when people of your ilk see California being cast adrift as a just and noble idea. In our sorry financial condition, we are still the seventh largest economy in the world by ourselves. Do you really want to have that economic strength go into the crapper?
So in a real sense, we are actually paying your bills, if you, in point of fact, are living in one of the states that get more from the Feds than you spend.
Valid point, and why no state should be beholden to the Federal government. If the Government is returning money to any state, the Federal government is receiving too much to start with.
The states know what they need, and I’m betting each and every state is fully capable of self support. It is the federal government that has turned the world upside down and made states slaves to federal handouts, welfare, earmarks, or whatever one calls the blackmail used by congress, to keep states in line.
We are very near the point of being free of this evil system. CA could lead the way and tell the fed the solution to its financial difficulties is to keep its money and work its way out of bankruptcy. This would put other states on notice, that they better have a solution that does not involve receiving more than they pay in tribute.
Actually, on a per-capita basis, California is STILL by far the worst. Only Nevada comes close.
“Do you really want to have that economic strength go into the crapper?”
Dude, Two words: Jerry Brown. Now that the Democrats are running the whole show, Denial will be the watchword in California politics.
Next question.
Lastly, it would be a disaster for the country as a whole to have Zero and his bunch print money to bail out any state. And you can bet that he would have to underwrite all the states if he started down that road.
Nobama will not have any say in bailing out the states, the GOP controls the US House and they control the purse strings.
Brown might want to cozy up to Hu Jintao to sell CA state and municpal bonds to the Chicoms to continue funding the Socialist Republic of California (I fled the madness in 1993 having been raised in Orange County).
Sorry, But American taxpayers are not interested in bailing out California’s horrible government of corrupt cops, do-nothing bureaucrats, welfare slugs and loafers and yes, muchos muchachos illegal aliens a’ plenty! Go balance your own budget Nuttyfornia—You wrote your own reputation and the headlines are chock full of the reasons why every day!