Last Call

Some perspective for you tonight.

Wisconsin's budget shortfall for June 2011-2013 is expected to be $3.6 billion dollars.  That's for two years worth of budgeting.

Today, in after hours trading, Hewlett-Packard lost about 3 times that in market capitalization.  On one idle Tuesday, poof, $10 billion goes away.  That's a couple hours of trading.  So yeah, HP's total market cap ($110 billion or so) is still 4 times as much as the entire state of Wisconsin spends in its state and local budget in one year, or twice as much in two years. ($53 billion).

The entire state.

We have odd priorities.