Originally Posted By: Dogfish
North Dakota also has a bit of an oil boom going on, which is one of the main reasons they are fiscally healthy.

Would you really want Gregoire, or someone like her, balancing your personal checkbook? Public banking is a non-starter.


i don't think the governor would run the bank and it would be more like a public central bank supplying money to local private banks instead of the Bank of America holding all the state funds. Did you read the article?