http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-calif3-2008oct03,0,5726760.story

No way. If california gets walfare from uncle sam, then the other 49 states would have an emergency too. Forget it Arnald. Mabey if California wasen't spending so much money on Ilegal's walefare benifits. They could get by.

With the money that is made in CA it's ridiculous that they should have budget problems. Maybe they need to raise the taxes on millionaires.

"Ilegal's walefare benifits"

Hey Stevethejd, read the frikkin article will ya huh?

I just did and they could still save money by making sure only U.S. citizens get goverment benifits.stevethedj

Steve, I think you're a bigot. But then again, you fit right in with the right wing religious xenophobes.

This has more to do with short term borrowing needs than it has to do with illegals.

There is no differance between someone stealing your money from you with a gun. Or taking money under false pretenses. Legal citizens are eligable for benifits, this is a good thing. People who take benifits, who are not legal citizens are lieing thiefs, and felons. If you went to a different country where you are not a citizen and the goverment is not going to help you. Legal citizens pay taxes. And i don't care what anyone thinks who dosent support the rule of law. period.

Your credibility is lacking due to your poor grammar and piss-poor spelling.

If that's the best argument you can come up with. so is your credibility. Lawyers pick apart a police report for spelling and grammar errors when their client is guilty as sin. think about it.

No, we won't.

Your credibilty here is lacking not only because of your piss-poor spelling and grammar. It's because you're too stupid to use any sort of spellchecker. Maybe you're gifted in some other areas, but it sure doesn't show up here.

I'm sure that you're not very intelligent, educated or well-read. And that's why you have no credibility (with me).

And Washington St has something like 2.9 billion shortfall for next bienium? Why cant Gregoire just file some 3 page document like the President did and get bailout money from the Feds?

If the Terminatoahr can do it, the Queen of Olympia can do it too.

With the economy the way it is, Washington won't be the only state facing a budget shortfall.

You got it ! Everyone except Alaska ! Queen Sarah saw to that...

If you read the article, CA is not needing the money because of a budget shortfall, it's needed to pay the bills today because they get a lot of their revenue later on in the year.

Oh its credit problems they have. My network here wont let me on the site for some reason today.

Pretty weird, the entire state of California cant get credit ! I wonder if they can get a AMEX card with a 10 billion dollar credit limit and maybe with some frequent traveler miles too.

I guess the state of California sees the federal government as a Pay Day loan operation. I can see Governor Schwarzenegger saying, "If you lend me $7 billion dollars today, I'll gladly pay you on Tuesday".

Another repercussion of the scumbags of Wall Street. The banks not only fucked up in the mortgage lending game, it's greedy behavior screwed municipalities in borrowing money. Once again, thank you Wall Street.

Amen to that. The News said tonight that California usually does this for the beginning of its fiscal year. But CA has required more and more loan money to pay the bills over the years. They keep spending money on things like infrastructure of Green Energy projects and other special very expensive things that keep that state running in the red.

It is the very same thing that led to the " Total Recall" of Gray Davis , which led to the election of the ' Governator' in the first place.

Serious folks, the layman ie average American will take any line or form of credit it is granted or given. PERIOD!

That is why when it all comes down to it we are all in some small part a blame for the current problems within this country today.

If you don't comprehend that shit I can be more simple with an example if you wish.