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  • Dan Walters: California debt may be half a trillion dollars

    11/29/2009 8:42:40 AM PST · by SmithL · 42 replies · 1,920+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 11/29/9 | Dan Walters
    Just days before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislators finalized a water package, including an $11.1 billion bond issue, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer warned them not to do it. California is already deeply in debt, Lockyer warned, has huge budget deficits and can't afford another big bond issue. "The days of blithely heaping more and more debt burden on the general fund are over – at least they should be," Lockyer said. The earmark-laden bond issue, the package's single most controversial element, raises an interesting question: Just how deeply in debt are our state and local governments? The answer: No one...