The Glade 4.0

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125814283469047497.html


"I looked as hard as I could at how states could declare bankruptcy," said Michael Genest, director of the California Department of Finance who is stepping down at the end of the year. "I literally looked at the federal constitution to see if there was a way for states to return to territory status."


This got me thinking, what happens if a state goes bankrupt? Are the other 49 now on the hook for them? Is it like when a city defaults, the state can take over a bit? Granted asking the Feds to manage the books for a state is like so many bad metaphors we could come up with.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Hmm. California wants to try to become a territory again.

Cons: Would have to bail out California's debt and the rest of the country now gets to foot the bill for a huge portion of the populace.

Pros: California no longer gets representatives, senators, or presidential votes. Pelosi is out on her ***.

Wow. That's a toughie. Hold on, don't rush me. I'm thinking.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Heh - the later Home Rule fight could be worse than DC's!

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

I'm attempting to contact Bugs Bunny so he can saw them off the end of the country.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Somehow I'm certain they'd find a way to shruck their debt and keep their control of the House, but maybe i'm just being cynical.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"