Puerto Rican schools, government offices close
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/01/puerto.rico.shutdown.ap/index.html
The closure gave an unplanned holiday to 500,000 students and threw almost 100,000 government employees -- including 40,000 teachers -- temporarily out of work.
Puerto Rico has run out of money to fund schools and government jobs partly due to (surprise surpise) they don't have any sales tax.
Surely this is a government that one could drown in a bathtub, no? Ofcourse this probably has something to do with it:
The government is Puerto Rico's largest employer, with some 200,000 workers. Salaries make up about 80 percent of the government's operational costs.
This reminds of my beloved Michigan when Engler was tossed out. Granholm had to raise everyones taxes because the state was so friggin' bankrupt it couldn't repair the hundreds of miles of pot-holed roads Engler refused to fix, much less fund the schools or anything else. G'dam Democrats, always raising taxes to pay for... roads.