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ProPublica's Unemployment Insurance Tracker reveals that California is the largest among 25 states in the category of bankrupt unemployment insurance funds. Currently, according to ProPublica, the state has borrowed $6.5 billion from the federal government, has $113.8 million in the trust fund now and ProPublica predicts the state will be insolvent in six months. No other borrowing state has borrowed more than $1.5 billion (Indiana). These numbers are a gauge of several factors: the price California pays for being the largest state; the over-concentration on one industry which, having been manipulated by the'big banksters, has laid off huge numbers of people -- from framers to tellers in formercommunity banks -- a catastrophy that has devastated the entire economy, down to what you choose to buy your grandchild at WalMart, who goes to the farmers market these days, and everything in between. The economy has been contracting since before Obama took office. As pressure builds on the unemployment insurance fund, as debt on the borrowing comes due, what will be the impact on benefits and the impact -- given the state's other billions in debt -- on the state's ability to remain a solvent government? In an election year, there will be distractions aplenty in the airwaves. Candidates will be supporting or possibly opposing publicly funded projects as vast as a high-speed railway system connecting north and south, a peripheral canal and new reservoirs, but the Badlands Journal editorial board aims to gather what accurate information exists on the state's ability to pay for services to people right here, right now, in the present rather than in the usual La-La Land of our Speculator Class. The Plutocrats do not just influence the government of California from the Legislature to City Hall -- they own the government of this state. They aim to persuade the public to further indebt the state, on top of its already junk-bond status of indebtedness, to underwrite with public funds projects that will enrich the plutocrats and further concentrate the wealth in this very small, parasitic class of people.

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