
San Bernardino became the third California city in that small span to choose Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection with a City Council vote on Tuesday night.
The Southern California city of about 210,000 people will also become the second largest in the nation ever to file for bankruptcy. Stockton, the Northern California city of nearly 300,000, became the biggest when it filed for Chapter 9 on June 28. The much smaller city of Mammoth Lakes voted for bankruptcy July 3.
San Bernardino's City Council directed the city attorney to make the move during a meeting where administrators explained the dire fiscal circumstances and urged them to choose the bankruptcy option.
"We have an immediate cash flow issue," Interim City Manager Andrea Miller told Mayor Patrick Morris and the seven-member City Council, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Miller said the city is facing a budget shortfall of $45.8 million. It has already stopped paying some vendors, and may not be able to make payroll over the next three months.
AND JUST WHAT RESULT DID YOU EXPECT ?
Your local city counsel might be fleecing your city right now if you don't watch them.
We vote local people into positions of power thinking it's just the city, but millions if not billions of dollars get spent on a variety of things, and who bennifits from that spending, do you?
That's the problem, we trust our local government while they steal from us, and some cities are just becoming aware of that corruption that happened years ago, and those people are gone now, living in other states, Lol, suckers learn the hard way that local government doesn't always take care of you as much as they take care of themselves.
Right now, in a 13 trillion dollar economy, with inflation at 2% and negative real interest rates, it would be very reasonable to print tens of billions of new dollars to do this.
Just print money ? like Zimbabwe bucks ?
Too much printing is bad. Too little printing is even worse.
http://hotair.com/greenroom/a...
The Fed is printing money backed by bonds that the Fed is buying
WSJ: Fed Buying 61 Percent of US Debt
http://www.moneynews.com/Head...
The EU debt crisis worked so well they decided to play follow the leader.
Washington's $5 trillion interest bill
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/...
It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/...
Obama is responsible for the first credit downgrade .
http://www.washingtonpost.com...
CBO: Obama’s Policies to Increase National Debt 47 Percent to $21.7 Trillion by 2022?
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
Obama is the current president responsible for the Fed to print money backed by buying it's own bonds.
Obama created 5 Trillion dollars in debt in his First Three years.
National Debt has increased more under Obama than under Bush in 8 years.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-5...
How can this be blamed on anyone other than the sitting president ?
Lousy Mayors, corrupt city officials, pensions, sanctuaries for illegals and they're bringing it all upon themselves. If you build it, they will come.
Have any idea where all the coal and gas come from supplying the energy needs?
And you conveniently ignore that 20% of a certain demographic can drag an entire state down from hanging out at the welfare office and holding up the wall outside the local likka-stoe. Take a walk inside ANY Social Services office and describe what you see.
Librul union states my ass.... they wouldn't be able to function without the red.
Keep it up and you just may find out, though. Factories and assembly plants can be built virtually anywhere.
Caterpillar - Indiana -Georgia
Boeing - S. Carolina
TOYOTA USA - Mississippi
All companies who have recently built or in the process of building $200 Million facilities in Right to Work states in SPITE of 0bozo's policies, not because of them.
Face it, it's not like somebody attaching the same headlight on the same model automobile 50 times a day went through extensive training to learn the task.
The fact that people get $45 per hour (plus bennies) doing a job a monkey could perform is part of the problem.
The residents in the south are happy with their wages because they don't pay $1,800 per month to rent a 1,100 sq. ft. shoebox and call it home. They don't have to dodge gunfire while walking their kids to school or stopping at the store to grab a gallon of milk and loaf of bread.
Of course blue states are full of welfare recipients and that's the second part of your 'statistic' that you don't comprehend.
States like MA, NY, CA & IL have all kinds of fat-cats living there regardless of their political affiliation and those states rank very high in the amount of money paid to the IRS.
They also pay county and state tax which pays for a great portion of the Social Services.
Yeah, we're in a pickle now and it's going to take a lot of sensible legislation to un-do all the asinine laws, restrictions and regulations.
Don't worry.... we're on it and by 2020, we will be 75% energy independent and many of the manufacturing that's located in the war zone of the Motor City area will have moved to safer areas. Michigan is almost lost. Detroit, Dearborn, Flint, are sinkholes. Ohio, Wisconsin & Indiana will be just fine and Illinois will remain the capital of corruption. GM is practically owned by China anyway and I expect Ford & Chrysler to migrate south as well.
There's going to be a lot of changes and NOT the kind 0bozo was referring to when proclaiming he would fundamentally transform the USA.
Hopefully, all will go smooth because I guarantee the 'blue' states aren't going to like the outcome if we end up splitting into two separate nations.
We have most of the clean water, natural resources, farmland and plenty of ports to ship goods from.
You'd find out real quick, who's been carrying who.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!