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California holds garage sale to pay down debt
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by mtippett | August 30, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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If there was ever a sign of the times, this is it.
The cash-strapped state of California is holding a massive two-day garage sale to get rid of cars, computers, prison gear and anything else deemed surplus and beef up empty coffers in the process.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came up with the idea of the "Great California Garage Sale" after slashing the government car fleet by 15 per cent. He's since become the garage sale's biggest promoter, holding news conferences, discussing it in web chats and Tweeting about it to followers.
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at 14:22 on August 30th, 2009
During the Great Depression, wagon-loads of desperate, deprivation-weary people moved to the west coast in search of a living ..... Could the biggest bust since the Depression cause the West Coasters to turn East?
at 18:42 on August 30th, 2009
Yes, they've moved into Arizona, Colorado and Nevada progressively this past ten years, and are causing the same problems with their liberalism that they created in California.....and those states are now facing depressions and more and more homeless as a result.
Gotta love those liberals.....NOT!
at 14:54 on August 30th, 2009
Michael thanks for this story. Amazing isn't it
at 18:41 on August 30th, 2009
Right, with California and its state government the major recipient now through Silicon Valley and their government contracts for the intelligence and telecom industries for both the war in Iraq and also the now domestic spying program? And after all that sales tax revenue after Michael Jackson's death from those people form out of state that were there for his several funerals and commemorative concerts?
And now the wildfires that most likely have been either state or federal governmentally set progressively in order to feed the State of California more taxpayer welfare than any other state in the entire country.
This guy is married to a Kennedy, alright. And also is a venture capitalist, and running California apparently as his own personal business venture. I wonder how much he has spent handing grants and special privileges to his buddy Donald Trump in the process....
Maybe the California Beverly Hills crowd could hold a benefit for the state as their next altruistic gesture. Since there "liberalism" is what has caused that state to continue, year after year, to lose more citizens than it gains.
What a scam artist Arnie is.....and the people of California whining about their "problems." Maybe if they also joined to get the borders closed also, some of those jobs that are now going to non-Americans for their government contractors could also go to Americans, and they have less needed for their non-American welfare programs also.