This article can be found at CNN . Before I copy clips from the article like I usually do let me just say surprise surprise. From the article, “California lawmakers worked into early Wednesday but couldn’t pass a budget to avoid the possibility of laying off 10,000 more state workers.” This budget is way past due and this should never have happened. Get this from the article, “Late Tuesday, Republicans ousted their leader, Sen. Dave Cogdill of Modesto. The move was likely to complicate debate because Cogdill had headed up negotiations with Democrats on the budget impasse.” That’s the way to get something done, not only have they waited past the 11th hour to get something done they now have demoted the Republican stated senator that has been doing the negotiations on the budget. Why doesn’t California talk with the bank and auto CEOs and use they budget plans. It would be easy just go to the federal government. Though I will have to say that any state financial issues that can not be worked out should be a federal government priority over helping anyone else out. The scary part of this article is that it is titled that it is about California but only a 1/3 of the article is about California. The other 2/3 of the article is about other states that are having financial problems. Here is a list of states mentioned in the article with financial issues:
California
Kansas (which stated in the article that they just passed a budget)
Colorado
Washington
Hawaii
New York
Florida
For all you non math wizards that is 14% of the United States just in this article. I know there are other states that are having big problems. This is still not getting much media coverage but the state financial issues are far more severe then most people realize.
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