georgephillip
Diamond Member
Apply the North Dakota model to California's revenue and capital base and $4 trillion in lending capacity in 2009 would have resulted.
In the summer of '09 California had to resort to IOUs when Congress and Wall Street refused a request to cover a $26 billion deficit.
The same congress that wasted little time coming up with $700 billion for Wall Street banks responsible for our Great Crisis.
For nearly a century, North Dakota, on a much smaller scale and with a much smaller population, has proven there is an alternative private bankers.
In the summer of '09 California had to resort to IOUs when Congress and Wall Street refused a request to cover a $26 billion deficit.
The same congress that wasted little time coming up with $700 billion for Wall Street banks responsible for our Great Crisis.
For nearly a century, North Dakota, on a much smaller scale and with a much smaller population, has proven there is an alternative private bankers.