On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:13:19 -0600, the infamous F. George McDuffee
scrawled the following:

On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:58:26 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:
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(1) Many of our most important states are operationally bankrupt,
and may default at any time on bond payments. The include but
are not limited to California,

Oddly enough...though the economy in California is in the toilet,
unemployment is actually about 21-24%...there have been NONE..not
one..layoff of government workers. Not a janitor, not a useless
Department of Reduncency Department worker..nada.

Nor is there likely to be, until the state simply vaporizes.


Gunner
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If you have not seen this already it will put a large knot in
your [and anyone else that lives in California] pantyhose.

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/05/258...rs-boosts.html
Bass promotes, gives raises to 20 staffers on final day as
Assembly speaker
By Jim Sanders

Published: Friday, Mar. 5, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Friday, Mar. 5, 2010 - 11:43 am

Former Assembly Speaker Karen Bass quietly promoted 20 members of
her Democratic caucus staff and gave them 10 percent salary
increases as she stepped down as Assembly leader.

Bass submitted the pay hikes and they took effect on the same
day, last Friday, the Los Angeles Democrat's final working day at
the helm of the 80-member lower house.
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Do you think that this was done because:

(A) She is lost in the 60s, i.e. out of touch with reality?

(B) She is expressing her contempt and anger for the California
voters because she "termed out" in the Assembly?

(C) The staff has the goods on her, and the raises were blackmail
payoffs?

(D) She has a death wish for California and the Democratic party.

(E) She is so deep in denial that the concept of "no money" has
no [political] meaning?

(F) Other -- please specify.

I'll have to go with (G) All of the Above.

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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his
heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till
the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943