Comment of the Week

Tom Petruno argues that California doesn't have a drinking debt problem because lots of other states are even more drunk in debt than we are.

The state's debt works out to $2,362 for every Californian, according to Moody's Investors Service. That ranks seventh among the states, well below the burdens of No. 1 Connecticut, at $4,859 per capita, and No. 3 Hawaii, at $3,996, for example.

In the comments there is this spamster advertising ... well, you'll see.

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Bonus material: Here are the ads Google decided to throw on that page.


Tom Petruno's defense of more borrowing by California reminds me of this Dean Martin quip: "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."