As the state begins to pay its workers minimum wage because it can't come up with a budget and is broke, as education is cut, police cut, fire cut, services needed, as real criminals go untried, or worse, released early due to overcrowding, Lohan is the fish we need to fry?
Developing Afghanistan's potentially rich deposits of iron, oil, gold, copper, lithium and other natural resources is regarded as crucial to the country's economic prospects, transforming it into a state that can begin to pay its own way and allowing the international community to cut back its financial and, ultimately, military support.
But this huge scientific effort has only begun to pay its dividends.
Its economy racked by recession and its political leadership paralyzed by stalemate, the State of California ran out of cash today and began to pay its bills with I.O.U.'s for the first time since the Great Depression.
As a rule, tokens are provided for a certain period indicated in the offer, after which the company begins to pay its obligations to investors (e.g. pay dividends).
Now, American tennis is beginning to pay for its exclusivity.
Mexico, some say, is beginning to pay the price for its lockstep with the United States.
IBM's big bet on the "hybrid" multicloud, a computing environment that combines multiple cloud providers and clouds, is beginning to pay off -- and drive innovation by its partners.
