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Right now there are 26 states (and climbing) in serious financial trouble or just plain broke!
Originally posted by CookieMonster09
You need to study CAFR - Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. Google California's CAFR. You'll see that in 2008 alone they brought in some $197 Billion in Revenue (that's right, $197 billion with a capital "B"). Between all the taxes they collect - according to the report they collected $109 Billion in taxes alone - fees, "charges for services", etc., the state of California is far from being broke.
The problem is that they bring in $197 Billion, then the idiot politicians spend $210 Billion, and then complain that they have a budget "deficit". Deficit my arse. Why not spend only $195 Billion, and live within your budget?
Originally posted by kyred
Hi, OP. Yep, for sure this could be part of how the NWO will put foreign troops on U.S. soil. I recall listening to CoasttoCoastAM, in the way back time of 2001 or maybe it was 2002. I don't recall the guest on the show, but he said the U.S. sending military to Iraq and Afghanistan was just the beginning of the movement of our U.S. military out of the country, so that when the time came, the U.S. would not have enough military forces remaining to protect the country, so eventually other countries military would be moved in to police our streets and communities.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
If all the dubious prohibition laws on drugs were repealed this would effectively place that product, quite clearly in demand, in the free and open market instead of on the black market as it is now. By doing so, a huge portion of crime syndicates revenue would evaporate with the stroke of a pen and greatly reduce the numbers of criminals in the whole country, not just Los Angeles. It would also greatly reduce the "need" for so many law enforcement officers and heavy taxation to fund them and this ill advised "war on drugs".