Scariest Muted-Blue Chart You are Likely to See All Day

An oddly muted presentation for a pretty inflammatory topic: projected state budget deficits:


It's from a Congressional Budget Office Report called "Policies for Increasing Economic Growth andEmployment in 2010 and 2011" (link). It's popping up all over bloggyland, but one source link is here. Can you read the number in the California box? It says (gulp) 49 percent.