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To: koan who wrote (546064)	1/25/2010 7:57:07 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	6 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576894

Koan, > Government program did that! I can tell you how government programs bankrupted California and New York, but you probably wouldn't be interested in failures of liberalism ... Tenchusatsu

To: koan who wrote (546064)	1/25/2010 8:04:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576894

Alaska is in the best shape financially of any state in the union It has a lot of oil, a fairly small population, and was not one of the places where the real-estate market had the biggest bubble. But its still facing a budget gap of around $1900 per person for 2010, and maybe half as much for 2011 after having budget problems in 2009. (see sunshinereview.org ) Not the fiscal crisis CA has, but hardly perfection, and essentially irrelevant to the idea you seem to be implying that government should direct more and more of the countries investment, or that we should casually dismiss the problems from massive state spending because Alaska sends out checks from all the money it gets from the oil industry.

To: koan who wrote (546064)	1/25/2010 10:11:57 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576894

Koan vs koan: One has to trade today. Investment is passe ... Message 26272830 Alaska is in the best shape financially of any state in the union ..... Because we used GOVERNMENT to invest our money for us .... Message 26272848

To: koan who wrote (546064)	1/29/2010 4:03:19 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576894

A Responsible Choice by Adam B. Schaeffer Added to cato.org on January 28, 2010 Fiscal crises demand efficiency in education. In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed spending another $4 billion annually on K–12 public education. He did not mention that state, local, and federal governments already spend well over twice what they did in 1980, or that there has been no discernible improvement in student achievement during that period. Especially in the current economic climate, the president would have been better served backing a policy with a proven record of improving achievement and saving money: school choice. State and local budgets ... Message 26285102