U.S. States’ Debt Tops $4 Trillion-Report !

• America is bankrupt at the federal, state, municipality …. levels. No amount of deficit spending can make the debt situation better. It is an oxymoronic solution. It is a question of when the whole debt edifice will collapse. Sep-Oct 2012?
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• There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
  – Ludwig von Mises
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  U.S. states’ debt tops $4 trillion-report! 
  Aug 28 (Reuters) – America’s 50 state governments owe $4.19 trillion, including outstanding bonds, unfunded pension commitments and budget gaps, according to a new report.
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  At $617.6 billion, California had by far the biggest total debt, more than twice the total of No. 2, New York, with $300.1 billion owed, according to State Budget Solutions, a research and non-partisan advocacy group.
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  Texas, with $287 billion owed, New Jersey, with $282.4 billion, and Illinois, with $271.1 billion, ranked next among states with the biggest total debt, according to State Budget Solutions. Vermont had the smallest debt load at $5.85 billion.
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  The annual study said state governments had benefited in the last year from smaller budget gaps and reductions in loans taken from the federal government during the worst of the Great Recession to pay unemployment claims.

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