$Stock*Shop*Charts*News*Option$

[hang ten]

that is an excellent article stuffit, full of notable quotes... imo here are a couple.

"It boggles the mind," says LA's mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. "Not since the Depression have we had numbers this bad."

Why does California have the country's lowest bond rating? "Because of our political and fiscal system," Goldberg believes. "We're so tied in knots, the market doesn't believe we can get a solution to our problems. It's the market saying, Your political system is really fucked up."
Lenny Goldberg, an economist at the left-leaning California Tax Reform Association