Calif is actually 35 billion in the hole when you factor in illegal alien give aways and hidden cost within the base line economic phony bookeeping. Brown was and is a fool and a crook.
The $35B number is much more likely. It's like the US debt is only $16T.
Back in 2008, the Dallas Fed president said the unfunded mandates for SS, Medicare, Medicaid was $99 TRILLION. It's WAY over that now. Add in today's debt which is closer to $20T (or more, since gov accounting lags by 18 months and is fudged beyond belief) and we're at $120 - $150 Trillion in debt.