California wants an emergency loan to continue government operations

Here is the article:

And the downside is???

I think its just the rich and powerful lining up to get their cut of the helicopter drop.

Oh, clicky link to the article.

The downside is people may realize that they can live without the state. They might find out that anarachy does not equal chaos. That is the downside, from the point of view of state employees.

Nah, they’ll get the money.

Nobody in their right mind would piss off the Californian voters a month before the presidential election.