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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (71841)	12/24/2009 11:30:07 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 74559

So much noise about Greece - but what about California? ... OUCH ... next New York ........OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH .....NOOOOOOOOOO California is #8 in the world in GDP of $1.8 trillion, NY #14 at $1.1 trillion ............ poor Greece #40 at $340 billion smaller than Massachusetts Schwarzenegger Seeks Obama’s Help for Deficit Relief (Update2) By Michael B. Marois and William Selway Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, anticipating a $21 billion budget deficit, plans to ask President Barack Obama to ease mandates and minimums on social programs to save as much as $8 billion. The Republican governor plans to seek the relief, according to a California official who asked not to be identified because details haven’t been resolved. Instead of seeking one-time stimulus money or a bailout, the most-populous state wants the U.S. to reduce mandates and waive rules stipulating expenditures on programs such as indigent health care, the official said. California is among states most affected by the economic recession. It has the lowest credit rating and recorded the nation’s second-highest rate of home foreclosures, trailing only Nevada. Unemployment peaked at 12.5 percent in October amid the loss of 687,700 jobs from the year before, when the jobless figure was 8 percent. Wealth declined as the stock market lost 40 percent of its value in 2008. Schwarzenegger and lawmakers worked to close a record $60 billion gap from February through July with $32 billion in spending cuts, $12.5 billion of temporary tax increases, $8 billion of federal stimulus money and more than $6 billion of other one-time fixes. bloomberg.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (71841)	12/24/2009 2:43:39 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Damn right! Who needs regulators? I think we should do away with traffic lights, people can sort these things out for themselves without government interference. In fact, what are the police good for? Citizens are quite capable of dealing with miscreants themselves, like in Brazil. As for regulations to ensure that goods are truthfully represented, well that's just fascism. Don't get me started on gun control ...