http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 15716.htmlLand values soared. States splurged on new programs. Then it all went bust, bringing down banks and state governments with them. This wasn't America in 2011, it was America in 1841, when a now-forgotten depression pushed eight states and a desolate territory called Florida into the unthinkable: They defaulted on debts.
Как и 150 лет назад куча штатов идет к банкротству.
Некоторые типа Иллинойса - уже второй раз.
А тем временем политики ищут как по-удачнее совместить несовместимое - Конституции независимых штатов с федеральной помощью.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/busin ... WP3p+wzOKwPolicymakers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.
Unlike cities, the states are barred from seeking protection in federal bankruptcy court. Any effort to change that status would have to clear high constitutional hurdles because the states are considered sovereign.
But proponents say some states are so burdened that the only feasible way out may be bankruptcy, giving Illinois, for example, the opportunity to do what General Motors did with the federal government’s aid.
То что бухгалтерия - "продажная девка империализма", нынешний кризис показал во всей красе.
Теперь речь идет о вещах посерьезней.
Ну что, как думаете, запродадут свою независимость за кошелек?