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(Left)A surfer walks past a pay parking sign at a beach in Cardiff, California January 6, 2011. A day of reckoning is coming for California's perpetually wobbly finances in the form of another lean budget plan next week, says Governor Jerry Brown -- and analysts expect moments of political hysteria along the way will create opportunities to buy the state's debt. REUTERS/Mike Blake
(Right)A pay parking meter is shown at a beach in Del Mar, California January 6, 2011 where parking is no longer free as local communities and the state look for ways to solve their budget shortfall.
California's new governor Jerry Brown takes a cheese sample from Jill Giacomini Bash (C) and Lynn Stray (R) from the Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company during a reception held for Brown at the California Railroad Museum in Sacramento January 3, 2011. Brown was sworn in as California's governor on Monday, returning to a job he held nearly three decades ago, and pledged a "tough budget" to turn around one of the most financially strapped U.S. states. REUTERS/Rich Pedroncelli/PoolS)