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BREAKING: David @friedberg says "California is functionally bankrupt"
"People don't realize how screwed California is, & I worry that if California falls, so does the union.
"$250 billion to $1 trillion short."
"This is because for California to get rescued would be a big cost to red states, & I think it creates in the years ahead a lot of tension."
"California's functional bankruptcy is a major risk to the country. & I think we need to figure out what we can change to fix it."
How we got here:
"California has a public pension system, & that public pension system retirees have paid into it & they get some benefits out, & the amount that they're owed back out is somewhere between $250 billion - $1 trillion dollars more than has been paid in.
$250 billion to $1 trillion short.
If it was the federal government, it would be like, okay, we'll just print more money. California doesn't have the ability to print money, so California has to pay this out, and you can't restructure retirement benefits.
There is a Supreme Court case in California that said that once an employee has been offered retirement benefits, even if they're currently an employee, you can never restructure their retirement benefits.
It has to stay forever, and the state cannot declare bankruptcy. There's no way for the state to functionally declare bankruptcy. There's no law to allow it. No state has ever declared bankruptcy, and the retirement benefits sit senior to the bonds in California.
So you have to pay out the retirement benefits before you pay out all the bond holders that have loaned California the money that they use to run all their programs and services."
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J-Cal: CA Leadership is Incompetent, So Californians Should Vote Them Out
@Jason reacts to LA Mayor Karen Bass stonewalling a reporter:
"That is the worst leadership I've ever seen under fire."
" Disgraceful. You took the leadership job. I don't give a sh*t if you're in shock."
When @chamath asked what Californians should do, Jason urged action:
-- Vote OUT incompetent career politicians
-- Vote IN executives with experience operating in chaos
" And it doesn't mean a Republican executive, it doesn't mean a Democrat executive."
"It means an executive who's run something in their life before."
"Whether it's Bloomberg, whether it's Trump, whether it's Rick Caruso, it doesn't matter their ideology, it matters their effectiveness."
" And if you vote for ineffective people, you're gonna get situations like this over and over and over again."
Jason explains how this philosophy impacts his views on Trump:
" This is why I've changed my position on rooting for Trump now."
"I was a 'Never Trumper,' everybody knows that."
"But he put executives around him this time around."
"And I am rooting for those executives to do what's right for the American people and solve big problems, not make them worse."