Want To Adopt California? Just Over $1 / Day!

[matcom]

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LAFAYETTE, Calif. -- For just over $1 a day, California citizens can adopt their state -- and help get rid of its debt.

A man in this San Francisco Bay area suburb has initiated a campaign to pay for the $15 billion bond Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to help balance the state budget.

Tom MacDonald, 63, is asking each of California's 35 million residents to donate $1.21 every day for one year -- a total of $441.65.

"It's a gift, a gift from the constituents of this state to help solve the problems they helped to create," MacDonald said.

Critics of the proposed bond issue, which is on the March 2 ballot as Proposition 57, say it would force future generations to pay around $30 billion for current borrowing.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2004/02/18/for_just_over_a_dollar_a_day_you_can_adopt_california/