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Blogs Liberty and Power Spending Money Like a Drunken Terminator

Dec 14, 2008

Spending Money Like a Drunken Terminator

by Liberty and Power

Even when governments claim to be broke, it seems that they can always find enough money for a new boondogle. Although Arnold Schwarzenegger is begging the federal government for a bailout, he is launching something called "Bank on California."