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Arnold Schwarzenegger may believe that he would be sitting in Barack Obama's chair in the Oval Office if only he had been born a U.S. citizen. Instead he runs California, which may be the nation's most populous state while being at the same time the one closest to economic ruin...
...California had an unemployment rate of 9.3% as of December. That news is days old now so it has very little value...
...What may end up being novel about the California jobless rate is how quickly it might be reversed by the capital, which will be injected into the economy by the new federal stimulus package. This state may end up being a sign of things to come. The foreclosure rate in California is one of the highest in the nation. More than 236,000 homes or 2.8% of California's housing stock foreclosed in 2008, helping to drive down home prices by 42% from December 2007 to last month, according to Bloomberg. In addition, the state government is projected...
...Based on the theory that $825 billion can buy or save three million to four million jobs, at least 200,000 of those should be in California. If this unprecedented economic package works, foreclosure rates should diminish and home prices should stabilize...
...think gay marriage was as big an issue in the presidential campaign as it has been in the past. The referendum in California certainly made it a huge post-election issue. It's still a very divisive issue in churches on the left and the right. But here's where the shift is taking place: young evangelicals and Catholics don't see gay marriage as a life issue. They have gay friends and colleagues and they don't see homosexuality as the greatest threat to marriage and family. Now, they care about marriage and family - this generation is really challenging...