Why We Should All Worry About California

California’s fiscal armageddon should also scare the rest of us into action, says Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post. “If Greece’s economic woes are not a flashing red light for U.S. policymakers, perhaps they will take California’s example to heart.”

The Week’s primer to California’s financial apocalypse is servicey, and also a scary reminder that we all need to worry about “the world’s ninth-largest economy” because what happens in California is not going to be contained in California.

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