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Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden
Your town is encapsulated with a time capsule? No financialcrisis or such?
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Time Capsule? No... Financial Crisis? There are people affected.
However the local cities where I live, have been very financially prudent for the last 20 years as the State of California likes to steal from city coffers to balance its budget. Therefore they set aside 10% of the annual budget in emergency reserve funds for city needs. Both cities have about $40 million in reserve funds. Also our primary employers (almost 80,000 jobs) are military or government employees. We have two Air Force facilities, a Naval facility and an Army base in the region.
Add to this the fact that the area is where the Space Shuttle was designed, built and flight tested here that we need one for the local airpark. It was a central part of many family's livelihoods for about 2 decades since they started developing it in the 70s until it was slated for retirement in the late 90s. We used to have the Enterprise on display locally until it was moved to the Smithsonian Institute.
01-03-2009, 01:27 PM
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