looking around the world
Feb. 11th, 2009 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccCatching up on what's happened in the rest of the planet since Friday.
California may have to cut it's prison population by 40% due to budget constraints. That could have interesting implications down the track. Also in California layoffs are looming in the State Government.
The sentence that got me was:
Running short of cash, California last month started delaying $3.5 billion in payments to taxpayers, contractors, counties and social service agencies so the state could continue funding schools and making debt payments.
Seriously? Screw the debt payments. If it comes down to keeping the money in circulation, or servicing the debt, I'd be going with the circulation myself. Then again, I don't currently have a $US11.2 billion dollar hole in my budget.
(Thank God.)
Wow, it really is 1983 all over again. Fires taking out Victoria, mass unemployment in the UK.. actually, what else happened in 1983? Besides fluoro socks and big T-shirts with "YES" and "NO" on them of course.
Delaware is trying to work out what to cut to fix the holes in its budget. The options presented are schools, public service jobs (like, 75% of them), Medicaid, or basically everything else. The list in Everything Else includes shutting all state parks, the State Police, the National Guard, the State Fire crews... it's quite a list actually.
Can I just say that I'm kind of glad we haven't hit that point yet?
I feel like it's been really cold today, but I think that's just in comparison to the last couple of weeks. I am still wearing a T-shirt after all - I'm just wearing jeans for the first time in a while.
There was an Israeli election. Counting's still going on, could be interesting.
California may have to cut it's prison population by 40% due to budget constraints. That could have interesting implications down the track. Also in California layoffs are looming in the State Government.
The sentence that got me was:
Running short of cash, California last month started delaying $3.5 billion in payments to taxpayers, contractors, counties and social service agencies so the state could continue funding schools and making debt payments.
Seriously? Screw the debt payments. If it comes down to keeping the money in circulation, or servicing the debt, I'd be going with the circulation myself. Then again, I don't currently have a $US11.2 billion dollar hole in my budget.
(Thank God.)
Wow, it really is 1983 all over again. Fires taking out Victoria, mass unemployment in the UK.. actually, what else happened in 1983? Besides fluoro socks and big T-shirts with "YES" and "NO" on them of course.
Delaware is trying to work out what to cut to fix the holes in its budget. The options presented are schools, public service jobs (like, 75% of them), Medicaid, or basically everything else. The list in Everything Else includes shutting all state parks, the State Police, the National Guard, the State Fire crews... it's quite a list actually.
Can I just say that I'm kind of glad we haven't hit that point yet?
I feel like it's been really cold today, but I think that's just in comparison to the last couple of weeks. I am still wearing a T-shirt after all - I'm just wearing jeans for the first time in a while.
There was an Israeli election. Counting's still going on, could be interesting.
