The “Break it Down” Blog

Let the Handouts Begin, California Needs $7 Billion Bailout

If you haven’t seen the news, Todd Swarthout send in this tasty morsel: now that it looks like the $700 billion bail-out is going to pass the House, it looks like the hands are starting to get held out… now California needs a $7 billion bail-out as well. But don’t worry, this one isn’t for lobbyists, [...]

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Southern California Fires: Largest Evac Since Katrina

(Live Map Link) For the folks that this caught completely off-guard (like myself), there are fires raging out of control in California right now so wide-spread and sweeping that 300k (yes 300,000) people were evacuated as early as 6am PST this morning with possibly 100k+ more to follow. The Big Picture blog has a lot of information [...]

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