It is no wonder a liberal college professor from California loves liberal California. "It will be a nation within a nation starting in January, when the federal government goes dark." Goes dark. Yes, an unbiased article. "California's actual wall of debt is $443 billion." California receives almost 55 billion in federal aid yearly.  "Market-valued unfunded public pension liabilities, outstanding government debt, unfunded other post employment benefit (OPEB) liabilities, and outstanding unemployment trust fund loans total over 777 billion. It was not hard to find these figures. No one ever uses underfunded pensions when they figure a states debt. Now add up all the untaken sick and vacation and funeral and maternity leave for state workers. And if you want to check out the great state of California then take a walk through East LA or Compton. California, where porn is an industry and has lobbyists. Where they think celebrities are experts on everything.