California in trouble

California says it will run out of money by February 2009, but could we prevent this with a time machine? What would we do, go back in time and prevent WWII from happening? It was WWII that caused taxes to go up and the US to go into debt.

Perhaps we could not go back that far, just prevent Vietnam, or better yet the Iraq war. The possibilities are endless, and yet the worst part is that we keep getting into these long expensive wars.