California fact of the day

Chug sends a good link to me, on default estimates, here is the bottom line:

The six with rankings more worrisome than California are Venezuela (the worst), followed by Argentina, Pakistan, Greece, Ukraine and the Emirate of Dubai. California ranks ahead of the Republic of Latvia, the Region of Sicily and Iraq.

As sovereign debt crises unfold, you will see increasingly innovative attempts to avoid uttering the simple words: "The government spent too much money here."

See also here for a list of "sovereign tighteners" and "sovereign wideners."